Benguela

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Benguela is GeoNames ID 3351663. Its recorded administrative path is Benguela → Angola, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat.

Benguela 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 2026-05-05; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Benguela ranks 1,003 by recorded population. Inside the 14 selected Angola entries it ranks 12; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 209.

Its 555,124 population value is 0.85 times the 654,033 median for the country cohort and 0.62 times the 902,588 regional median. Benguela sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Angola entries.

Benguela'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

Benguela's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Huambo at 254.44 km with 595,304 recorded people; Lubango at 260.425 km with 600,751 recorded people; Calumbo at 381.383 km with 652,270 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 126.943 km. Compared with Huambo, Benguela's recorded population is 0.93 times as large. Against Benguela, Huambo follows Huambo → Angola in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Angola cohort, uses the shared Africa/Luanda identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class.

Its recorded population is above Benguela's. Against Benguela, Lubango follows Huila → Angola in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Angola cohort, uses the shared Africa/Luanda identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Benguela's. Against Benguela, Calumbo follows Bengo → Angola in the source.

Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Angola cohort, uses the shared Africa/Luanda identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Benguela's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,073 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Benguela'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 3351663, the coordinate pair 12.5767 / 13.4027, country rank 12 of 14, and neighbor GeoNames 3348313 at 254.44 km bind Benguela to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Benguela's reference point is 12.5767° south and 13.4027° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Luanda is shared by 14 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Benguela's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label.

Benguela's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Benguela's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Benguela, 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.