1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Malawi
Compare this sourced profile of Blantyre, Malawi 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 Blantyre—902,588, Africa/Blantyre, 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: city in Malawi.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Blantyre is GeoNames ID 931755. Its recorded administrative path is Blantyre District → Southern Region → Malawi, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Blantyre 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 2026-04-14; 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, Blantyre ranks 616 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Malawi entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 122. Its 902,588 population value is 0.89 times the 1,009,202 median for the country cohort and 1.00 times the 902,588 regional median. Blantyre is rank 2 among the 2 selected Malawi entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Blantyre'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.
Blantyre's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Lilongwe at 241.026 km with 1,115,815 recorded people; Beira at 451.655 km with 687,764 recorded people; Nampula at 462.368 km with 770,379 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 221.342 km. Compared with Lilongwe, Blantyre's recorded population is 0.81 times as large. Against Blantyre, Lilongwe follows Lilongwe District → Central Region → Malawi in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Malawi cohort, uses the shared Africa/Blantyre identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Blantyre's. Against Blantyre, Beira follows Sofala → Mozambique in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Mozambique cohort rather than Malawi, uses Africa/Maputo instead of Africa/Blantyre, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Blantyre's. Against Blantyre, Nampula follows Nampula → Mozambique in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Mozambique cohort rather than Malawi, uses Africa/Maputo instead of Africa/Blantyre, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Blantyre's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,053 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Blantyre'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 931755, the coordinate pair 15.7850 / 35.0085, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 927967 at 241.026 km bind Blantyre to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Blantyre's reference point is 15.7850° south and 35.0085° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Blantyre is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Blantyre's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Blantyre's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Blantyre's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Blantyre, 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
Blantyre's closest other entries in this atlas are Lilongwe (241.026 km), Beira (451.655 km), Nampula (462.368 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.