1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Ethiopia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Addis Ababa—3,860,000, Africa/Addis_Ababa, 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: capital city of Ethiopia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Addis Ababa is GeoNames ID 344979. Its recorded administrative path is Addis Ababa → Ethiopia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Addis Ababa 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 2026-02-23; 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, Addis Ababa ranks 84 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Ethiopia entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 18. Its 3,860,000 population value is 1.78 times the 2,171,500 median for the country cohort and 4.28 times the 902,588 regional median. Addis Ababa is rank 1 among the 2 selected Ethiopia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Addis Ababa's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Addis Ababa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jijiga at 446.366 km with 483,000 recorded people; Borama at 496.94 km with 597,842 recorded people; Balbala at 554.118 km with 554,350 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 107.752 km. Compared with Jijiga, Addis Ababa's recorded population is 7.99 times as large. Against Addis Ababa, Jijiga follows Somali → Ethiopia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Ethiopia cohort, uses the shared Africa/Addis_Ababa identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Addis Ababa's. Against Addis Ababa, Borama follows Awdal → Somalia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Somalia cohort rather than Ethiopia, uses Africa/Mogadishu instead of Africa/Addis_Ababa, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Addis Ababa's. Against Addis Ababa, Balbala follows Djibouti in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Djibouti cohort rather than Ethiopia, uses Africa/Djibouti instead of Africa/Addis_Ababa, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Addis Ababa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,171 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Addis Ababa's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. 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 344979, the coordinate pair 9.0250 / 38.7469, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 333795 at 446.366 km bind Addis Ababa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Addis Ababa's reference point is 9.0250° north and 38.7469° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Addis_Ababa is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Addis Ababa's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Addis Ababa's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Addis Ababa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Addis Ababa, 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
Addis Ababa's closest other entries in this atlas are Jijiga (446.366 km), Borama (496.94 km), Balbala (554.118 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-02-23; 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.