1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Egypt
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Assiut—528,669, 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 Assiut is GeoNames ID 359783. Its recorded administrative path is Asyut → Egypt, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Assiut 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 2024-07-08; 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, Assiut ranks 1,068 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Egypt entries it ranks 10; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 223. Its 528,669 population value is 0.80 times the 660,747 median for the country cohort and 0.59 times the 902,588 regional median. Assiut sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Egypt entries. Assiut'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.
Assiut's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Faiyum at 239.089 km with 519,047 recorded people; Giza at 314.522 km with 4,367,343 recorded people; Cairo at 320.492 km with 9,606,916 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 81.403 km. Compared with Faiyum, Assiut's recorded population is 1.02 times as large. Against Assiut, Faiyum follows Faiyum → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower 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 Assiut's. Against Assiut, Giza follows Giza → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher 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 above Assiut's. Against Assiut, Cairo follows Cairo → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Assiut's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,048 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Assiut'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 359783, the coordinate pair 27.1810 / 31.1837, country rank 10 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 361320 at 239.089 km bind Assiut to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Assiut's reference point is 27.1810° north and 31.1837° 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. Assiut's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Assiut's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Assiut's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Assiut, 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
Assiut's closest other entries in this atlas are Faiyum (239.089 km), Giza (314.522 km), Cairo (320.492 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-08; 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.