1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Philippines
Compare this sourced profile of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines 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 Cagayan de Oro—741,617, Asia/Manila, 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 of the Philippines and capital of the province of Misamis Oriental.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Cagayan de Oro is GeoNames ID 1721080. Its recorded administrative path is Province of Misamis Oriental → Northern Mindanao → Philippines, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Cagayan de Oro 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 2025-09-24; 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, Cagayan de Oro ranks 742 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected Philippines entries it ranks 12; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 420. Its 741,617 population value is 0.93 times the 797,334 median for the country cohort and 0.74 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Cagayan de Oro sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Philippines entries. Cagayan de Oro'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.
Cagayan de Oro's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Budta at 143.939 km with 1,273,715 recorded people; Malingao at 148.152 km with 1,121,974 recorded people; Davao City at 189.388 km with 1,848,947 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 45.449 km. Compared with Budta, Cagayan de Oro's recorded population is 0.58 times as large. Against Cagayan de Oro, Budta follows Maguindanao del Norte → Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Cagayan de Oro's. Against Cagayan de Oro, Malingao follows Cotabato → Soccsksargen → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Cagayan de Oro's. Against Cagayan de Oro, Davao City follows Province of Davao del Sur → Davao Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Cagayan de Oro's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 858 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cagayan de Oro'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 1721080, the coordinate pair 8.4822 / 124.6472, country rank 12 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1723510 at 143.939 km bind Cagayan de Oro to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cagayan de Oro's reference point is 8.4822° north and 124.6472° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Manila is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Cagayan de Oro's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Cagayan de Oro's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cagayan de Oro's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cagayan de Oro, 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
Cagayan de Oro's closest other entries in this atlas are Budta (143.939 km), Malingao (148.152 km), Davao City (189.388 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-09-24; 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.