1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Libya
Compare this sourced profile of Benghazi, Libya 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 Benghazi—757,490, Africa/Tripoli, 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: second largest city in Libya.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Benghazi is GeoNames ID 88319. Its recorded administrative path is Banghazi → Libya, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Benghazi 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 2026-07-08; 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, Benghazi ranks 728 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Libya entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 150. Its 757,490 population value is 0.74 times the 1,030,219 median for the country cohort and 0.84 times the 902,588 regional median. Benghazi is rank 2 among the 2 selected Libya entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Benghazi's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Benghazi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tripoli at 650.893 km with 1,302,947 recorded people; Athens at 732.517 km with 664,046 recorded people; Palermo at 903.504 km with 648,260 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 252.611 km. Compared with Tripoli, Benghazi's recorded population is 0.58 times as large. Against Benghazi, Tripoli follows Tripoli → Libya in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Libya cohort, uses the shared Africa/Tripoli identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Benghazi's. Against Benghazi, Athens follows Nomarchia Athinas → Attica → Greece in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Greece cohort rather than Libya, uses Europe/Athens instead of Africa/Tripoli, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Benghazi's. Against Benghazi, Palermo follows Palermo → Sicily → Italy in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Italy cohort rather than Libya, uses Europe/Rome instead of Africa/Tripoli, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Benghazi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,191 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Benghazi'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 88319, the coordinate pair 32.1149 / 20.0686, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2210247 at 650.893 km bind Benghazi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Benghazi's reference point is 32.1149° north and 20.0686° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Tripoli is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Benghazi's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Benghazi's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Benghazi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Benghazi, 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
Benghazi's closest other entries in this atlas are Tripoli (650.893 km), Athens (732.517 km), Palermo (903.504 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-08; 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.