1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Congo - Brazzaville
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Brazzaville—1,982,000, Africa/Brazzaville, 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: capital of the Republic of the Congo.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Brazzaville is GeoNames ID 2260535. Its recorded administrative path is Brazzaville → Congo - Brazzaville, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Brazzaville 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 2025-10-31; 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, Brazzaville ranks 202 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Congo - Brazzaville entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 42. Its 1,982,000 population value is 1.32 times the 1,507,000 median for the country cohort and 2.20 times the 902,588 regional median. Brazzaville is rank 1 among the 2 selected Congo - Brazzaville entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Brazzaville'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.
Brazzaville's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kinshasa at 7.619 km with 16,000,000 recorded people; Masina at 17.737 km with 485,167 recorded people; Cabinda at 371.25 km with 550,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 363.631 km. Compared with Kinshasa, Brazzaville's recorded population is 0.12 times as large. Against Brazzaville, Kinshasa follows Kinshasa → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort rather than Congo - Brazzaville, uses Africa/Kinshasa instead of Africa/Brazzaville, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Brazzaville's. Against Brazzaville, Masina follows Kinshasa → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort rather than Congo - Brazzaville, uses Africa/Kinshasa instead of Africa/Brazzaville, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Brazzaville's. Against Brazzaville, Cabinda follows Cabinda → Angola in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Angola cohort rather than Congo - Brazzaville, uses Africa/Luanda instead of Africa/Brazzaville, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Brazzaville's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 117 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Brazzaville's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth 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 2260535, the coordinate pair 4.2661 / 15.2832, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2314302 at 7.619 km bind Brazzaville to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Brazzaville's reference point is 4.2661° south and 15.2832° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Brazzaville is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Brazzaville's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Brazzaville's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Brazzaville's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Brazzaville, 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
Brazzaville's closest other entries in this atlas are Kinshasa (7.619 km), Masina (17.737 km), Cabinda (371.25 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-10-31; 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.