1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Côte d’Ivoire
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Abidjan—6,321,017, Africa/Abidjan, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: major city and economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Abidjan is GeoNames ID 2293538. Its recorded administrative path is Abidjan Autonomous District → Côte d’Ivoire, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Abidjan occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Abidjan ranks 48 by recorded population. Inside the 3 selected Côte d’Ivoire entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 8. Its 6,321,017 population value is 4.72 times the 1,340,083 median for the country cohort and 7.00 times the 902,588 regional median. Abidjan is rank 1 among the 3 selected Côte d’Ivoire entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Abidjan's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Abidjan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Abobo at 7.038 km with 1,340,083 recorded people; Bouaké at 283.866 km with 832,371 recorded people; Kumasi at 301.838 km with 2,544,530 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 294.8 km. Compared with Abobo, Abidjan's recorded population is 4.72 times as large. Against Abidjan, Abobo follows Abidjan Autonomous District → Côte d’Ivoire in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Côte d’Ivoire cohort, uses the shared Africa/Abidjan identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Abidjan's. Against Abidjan, Bouaké follows Vallee du Bandama District → Côte d’Ivoire in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Côte d’Ivoire cohort, uses the shared Africa/Abidjan identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Abidjan's. Against Abidjan, Kumasi follows Kumasi → Ashanti → Ghana in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Ghana cohort rather than Côte d’Ivoire, uses Africa/Accra instead of Africa/Abidjan, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Abidjan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 104 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Abidjan's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2293538, the coordinate pair 5.3544 / 4.0017, country rank 1 of 3, and neighbor GeoNames 2293521 at 7.038 km bind Abidjan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Abidjan's reference point is 5.3544° north and 4.0017° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Abidjan is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Abidjan's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Abidjan's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Abidjan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Abidjan, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Abidjan's closest other entries in this atlas are Abobo (7.038 km), Bouaké (283.866 km), Kumasi (301.838 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.