1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Eritrea
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Asmara—563,930, Africa/Asmara, 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: capital city of Eritrea.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Asmara is GeoNames ID 343300. Its recorded administrative path is South Western Subregion → Maekel → Eritrea, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Asmara 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 2021-03-10; 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, Asmara ranks 989 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Eritrea entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 204. Its 563,930 population value is 1.00 times the 563,930 median for the country cohort and 0.62 times the 902,588 regional median. Asmara is rank 1 among the 1 selected Eritrea entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Asmara'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.
Asmara's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Al Hudaydah at 436.072 km with 734,699 recorded people; Port Sudan at 509.423 km with 489,725 recorded people; Sanaa at 565.587 km with 1,937,451 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 129.515 km. Compared with Al Hudaydah, Asmara's recorded population is 0.77 times as large. Against Asmara, Al Hudaydah follows Al Hawak → Al Hudaydah → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Yemen cohort rather than Eritrea, uses Asia/Aden instead of Africa/Asmara, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Asmara's. Against Asmara, Port Sudan follows Red Sea → Sudan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Sudan cohort rather than Eritrea, uses Africa/Khartoum instead of Africa/Asmara, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Asmara's. Against Asmara, Sanaa follows Amanat Alasimah → Yemen in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Yemen cohort rather than Eritrea, uses Asia/Aden instead of Africa/Asmara, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Asmara's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,169 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Asmara'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 343300, the coordinate pair 15.3381 / 38.9318, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 79415 at 436.072 km bind Asmara to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Asmara's reference point is 15.3381° north and 38.9318° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Asmara is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Asmara's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Asmara's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Asmara's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Asmara, 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
Asmara's closest other entries in this atlas are Al Hudaydah (436.072 km), Port Sudan (509.423 km), Sanaa (565.587 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-03-10; 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.