1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Egypt
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Faiyum—519,047, Africa/Cairo, 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 Egypt.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Faiyum is GeoNames ID 361320. Its recorded administrative path is Faiyum → Egypt, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Al Fayyum 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 2023-11-29; 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, Faiyum ranks 1,093 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Egypt entries it ranks 11; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 228. Its 519,047 population value is 0.79 times the 660,747 median for the country cohort and 0.58 times the 902,588 regional median. Faiyum sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Egypt entries. Faiyum'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.
Faiyum's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Giza at 85.475 km with 4,367,343 recorded people; Cairo at 92.504 km with 9,606,916 recorded people; Shobra Elkhema at 98.863 km with 1,240,289 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 13.388 km. Compared with Giza, Faiyum's recorded population is 0.12 times as large. Against Faiyum, Giza follows Giza → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Faiyum's. Against Faiyum, Cairo follows Cairo → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Faiyum's. Against Faiyum, Shobra Elkhema follows Qalyubia → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Faiyum's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 638 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Faiyum'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 361320, the coordinate pair 29.3100 / 30.8418, country rank 11 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 360995 at 85.475 km bind Faiyum to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Faiyum's reference point is 29.3100° north and 30.8418° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Cairo is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Faiyum's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Faiyum's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Faiyum's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Faiyum, 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
Faiyum's closest other entries in this atlas are Giza (85.475 km), Cairo (92.504 km), Shobra Elkhema (98.863 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-11-29; 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.