1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iran
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Ahvaz—841,145, Asia/Tehran, 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: city in Khuzestan Province, Iran.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ahvaz is GeoNames ID 144448. Its recorded administrative path is Khuzestan → Iran, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Ahvaz 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 2024-09-05; 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, Ahvaz ranks 666 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Iran entries it ranks 8; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 131. Its 841,145 population value is 1.00 times the 841,145 median for the country cohort and 0.93 times the 902,588 regional median. Ahvaz sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Iran population cohort. Ahvaz's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Ahvaz's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Basrah at 124.723 km with 1,326,564 recorded people; Nasiriyah at 232.672 km with 558,400 recorded people; Al Ahmadi at 255.893 km with 637,411 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 131.17 km. Compared with Basrah, Ahvaz's recorded population is 0.63 times as large. Against Ahvaz, Basrah follows Basrah District → Basra → Iraq in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Iraq cohort rather than Iran, uses Asia/Baghdad instead of Asia/Tehran, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Ahvaz's. Against Ahvaz, Nasiriyah follows Nassriya District → Dhi Qar → Iraq in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Iraq cohort rather than Iran, uses Asia/Baghdad instead of Asia/Tehran, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Ahvaz's. Against Ahvaz, Al Ahmadi follows Al Ahmadi → Kuwait in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Kuwait cohort rather than Iran, uses Asia/Kuwait instead of Asia/Tehran, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Ahvaz's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 793 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ahvaz'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 144448, the coordinate pair 31.3190 / 48.6842, country rank 8 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 99532 at 124.723 km bind Ahvaz to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ahvaz's reference point is 31.3190° north and 48.6842° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tehran is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Ahvaz's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Ahvaz's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ahvaz's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ahvaz, 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
Ahvaz's closest other entries in this atlas are Basrah (124.723 km), Nasiriyah (232.672 km), Al Ahmadi (255.893 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-09-05; 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.