1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iraq
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Basrah—1,326,564, Asia/Baghdad, 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 Basrah is GeoNames ID 99532. Its recorded administrative path is Basrah District → Basra → Iraq, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Basrah 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 2025-12-18; 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, Basrah ranks 378 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Iraq entries it ranks 4; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 77. Its 1,326,564 population value is 1.09 times the 1,211,849 median for the country cohort and 1.47 times the 902,588 regional median. Basrah sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Iraq population cohort. Basrah'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.
Basrah's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ahvaz at 124.723 km with 841,145 recorded people; Nasiriyah at 157.809 km with 558,400 recorded people; Al Ahmadi at 161.856 km with 637,411 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 37.133 km. Compared with Ahvaz, Basrah's recorded population is 1.58 times as large. Against Basrah, Ahvaz follows Khuzestan → Iran in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Iran cohort rather than Iraq, uses Asia/Tehran instead of Asia/Baghdad, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Basrah's. Against Basrah, Nasiriyah follows Nassriya District → Dhi Qar → Iraq in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iraq cohort, uses the shared Asia/Baghdad identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Basrah's. Against Basrah, Al Ahmadi follows Al Ahmadi → Kuwait in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Kuwait cohort rather than Iraq, uses Asia/Kuwait instead of Asia/Baghdad, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Basrah's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 793 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Basrah'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 99532, the coordinate pair 30.5085 / 47.7804, country rank 4 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 144448 at 124.723 km bind Basrah to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Basrah's reference point is 30.5085° north and 47.7804° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Baghdad is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Basrah's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Basrah's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Basrah's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Basrah, 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
Basrah's closest other entries in this atlas are Ahvaz (124.723 km), Nasiriyah (157.809 km), Al Ahmadi (161.856 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-18; 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.