1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Yemen
Compare this sourced profile of Aden, Yemen before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Aden—1,079,670, Asia/Aden, 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: port city and temporary capital of Yemen.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Aden is GeoNames ID 415189. Its recorded administrative path is Craiter → Aden → Yemen, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Aden 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 2026-04-14; 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, Aden ranks 499 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Yemen entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 103. Its 1,079,670 population value is 1.26 times the 856,057 median for the country cohort and 1.20 times the 902,588 regional median. Aden is rank 2 among the 6 selected Yemen entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Aden'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.
Aden's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ta'izz at 141.598 km with 940,600 recorded people; Ibb at 161.191 km with 771,514 recorded people; Djibouti at 244.702 km with 626,512 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 103.104 km. Compared with Ta'izz, Aden's recorded population is 1.15 times as large. Against Aden, Ta'izz follows Salh → Ta'izz → Yemen in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Aden's. Against Aden, Ibb follows Al Mashannah → Ibb Governorate → Yemen in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Aden's. Against Aden, Djibouti follows Djibouti in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Djibouti cohort rather than Yemen, uses Africa/Djibouti instead of Asia/Aden, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Aden's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 852 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Aden'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 415189, the coordinate pair 12.7796 / 45.0385, country rank 2 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 70225 at 141.598 km bind Aden to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Aden's reference point is 12.7796° north and 45.0385° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Aden is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Aden's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Aden's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Aden's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Aden, 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
Aden's closest other entries in this atlas are Ta'izz (141.598 km), Ibb (161.191 km), Djibouti (244.702 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.