1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Egypt
Compare this sourced profile of Al Khuşūş, Egypt 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 Khuşūş—488,904, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Al Khuşūş is GeoNames ID 360890. Its recorded administrative path is Qalyubia → Egypt, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Al Khuşūş 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 2022-04-18; 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 Khuşūş ranks 1,175 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Egypt entries it ranks 12; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 238. Its 488,904 population value is 0.74 times the 660,747 median for the country cohort and 0.54 times the 902,588 regional median. Al Khuşūş sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Egypt entries. Al Khuşūş's recorded value is materially below 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 Khuşūş's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Shobra Elkhema at 6.929 km with 1,240,289 recorded people; Cairo at 11.846 km with 9,606,916 recorded people; Giza at 18.957 km with 4,367,343 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 12.028 km. Compared with Shobra Elkhema, Al Khuşūş's recorded population is 0.39 times as large. Against Al Khuşūş, Shobra Elkhema follows Qalyubia → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Al Khuşūş's. Against Al Khuşūş, Cairo follows Cairo → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Al Khuşūş's. Against Al Khuşūş, Giza follows Giza → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Al Khuşūş's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 98 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Al Khuşūş's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. 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 360890, the coordinate pair 30.1529 / 31.3150, country rank 12 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 349076 at 6.929 km bind Al Khuşūş to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Al Khuşūş's reference point is 30.1529° north and 31.3150° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Cairo is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Al Khuşūş's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Al Khuşūş's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Al Khuşūş's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Al Khuşūş, 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 Khuşūş's closest other entries in this atlas are Shobra Elkhema (6.929 km), Cairo (11.846 km), Giza (18.957 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-04-18; 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.