1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Syria
Compare this sourced profile of Aleppo, Syria 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 Aleppo—2,098,210, Asia/Damascus, 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 Aleppo Governorate, Syria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Aleppo is GeoNames ID 170063. Its recorded administrative path is Aleppo → Syria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Aleppo 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 2026-06-16; 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, Aleppo ranks 195 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected Syria entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 41. Its 2,098,210 population value is 2.71 times the 775,404 median for the country cohort and 2.32 times the 902,588 regional median. Aleppo is rank 1 among the 5 selected Syria entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Aleppo's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Aleppo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Gaziantep at 97.45 km with 2,222,415 recorded people; Latakia at 144.209 km with 709,000 recorded people; Ar Raqqah at 168.245 km with 531,952 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 70.795 km. Compared with Gaziantep, Aleppo's recorded population is 0.94 times as large. Against Aleppo, Gaziantep follows Gaziantep → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Türkiye cohort rather than Syria, uses Europe/Istanbul instead of Asia/Damascus, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Aleppo's. Against Aleppo, Latakia follows Latakia → Syria in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Syria cohort, uses the shared Asia/Damascus identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Aleppo's. Against Aleppo, Ar Raqqah follows Raqqa → Syria in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Syria cohort, uses the shared Asia/Damascus identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Aleppo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 687 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Aleppo'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 170063, the coordinate pair 36.2012 / 37.1612, country rank 1 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 314830 at 97.45 km bind Aleppo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Aleppo's reference point is 36.2012° north and 37.1612° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Damascus is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Aleppo's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Aleppo's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Aleppo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Aleppo, 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
Aleppo's closest other entries in this atlas are Gaziantep (97.45 km), Latakia (144.209 km), Ar Raqqah (168.245 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-16; 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.