1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of Belém, Brazil 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 Belém—1,499,641, America/Belem, 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: human settlement in Brazil.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Belém is GeoNames ID 3405870. Its recorded administrative path is Belem → Para → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Belém 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 2026-04-13; 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, Belém ranks 316 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 11; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 45. Its 1,499,641 population value is 1.98 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 1.84 times the 816,326 regional median. Belém falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. Belém's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Belém's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ananindeua at 17.798 km with 535,547 recorded people; Macapá at 329.79 km with 512,902 recorded people; São Luís at 481.941 km with 917,237 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 464.143 km. Compared with Ananindeua, Belém's recorded population is 2.80 times as large. Against Belém, Ananindeua follows Ananindeua → Para → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Belem identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Belém's. Against Belém, Macapá follows Macapa → Amapa → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Belem identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Belém's. Against Belém, São Luís follows Sao Luis → Maranhao → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Fortaleza instead of America/Belem, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Belém's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 247 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Belém's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 3405870, the coordinate pair 1.4558 / 48.5044, country rank 11 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3407669 at 17.798 km bind Belém to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Belém's reference point is 1.4558° south and 48.5044° west. The IANA identifier America/Belem is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Belém's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Belém's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Belém's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Belém, 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
Belém's closest other entries in this atlas are Ananindeua (17.798 km), Macapá (329.79 km), São Luís (481.941 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.