1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Egypt
Compare this sourced profile of Alexandria, 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 Alexandria—5,263,542, 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: port city on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Alexandria is GeoNames ID 361058. Its recorded administrative path is Alexandria → Egypt, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Alexandria 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 2026-02-23; 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, Alexandria ranks 55 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Egypt entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 10. Its 5,263,542 population value is 7.97 times the 660,747 median for the country cohort and 5.83 times the 902,588 regional median. Alexandria falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Egypt population cohort. Alexandria'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.
Alexandria's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tanta at 113.265 km with 576,648 recorded people; Al Maḩallah al Kubrá at 121.876 km with 592,573 recorded people; Al Mansurah at 140.652 km with 621,953 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 27.387 km. Compared with Tanta, Alexandria's recorded population is 9.13 times as large. Against Alexandria, Tanta follows Gharbia → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower 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 below Alexandria's. Against Alexandria, Al Maḩallah al Kubrá follows Gharbia → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Alexandria's. Against Alexandria, Al Mansurah follows Dakahlia → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower 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 below Alexandria's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 746 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Alexandria'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 361058, the coordinate pair 31.2018 / 29.9158, country rank 2 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 347497 at 113.265 km bind Alexandria to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Alexandria's reference point is 31.2018° north and 29.9158° 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. Alexandria's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Alexandria's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Alexandria's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Alexandria, 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
Alexandria's closest other entries in this atlas are Tanta (113.265 km), Al Maḩallah al Kubrá (121.876 km), Al Mansurah (140.652 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 2026-02-23; 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.