1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Yemen
Compare this sourced profile of Al Hudaydah, 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 Al Hudaydah—734,699, 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: city in Yemen.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Al Hudaydah is GeoNames ID 79415. Its recorded administrative path is Al Hawak → Al Hudaydah → Yemen, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Al Ḩudaydah 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, Al Hudaydah ranks 753 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Yemen entries it ranks 5; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 156. Its 734,699 population value is 0.86 times the 856,057 median for the country cohort and 0.81 times the 902,588 regional median. Al Hudaydah is rank 5 among the 6 selected Yemen entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Al Hudaydah'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.
Al Hudaydah's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sanaa at 147.986 km with 1,937,451 recorded people; Ibb at 161.427 km with 771,514 recorded people; Ta'izz at 177.67 km with 940,600 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 29.684 km. Compared with Sanaa, Al Hudaydah's recorded population is 0.38 times as large. Against Al Hudaydah, Sanaa follows Amanat Alasimah → Yemen in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Al Hudaydah's. Against Al Hudaydah, Ibb follows Al Mashannah → Ibb Governorate → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher 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 above Al Hudaydah's. Against Al Hudaydah, Ta'izz follows Salh → Ta'izz → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher 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 above Al Hudaydah's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 872 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Al Hudaydah'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 79415, the coordinate pair 14.7978 / 42.9545, country rank 5 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 71137 at 147.986 km bind Al Hudaydah to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Al Hudaydah's reference point is 14.7978° north and 42.9545° 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. Al Hudaydah's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Al Hudaydah's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Al Hudaydah's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Al Hudaydah, 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
Al Hudaydah's closest other entries in this atlas are Sanaa (147.986 km), Ibb (161.427 km), Ta'izz (177.67 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.