1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
South Africa
Compare this sourced profile of Cape Town, South Africa 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 Cape Town—4,772,846, Africa/Johannesburg, 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 the Western Cape, South Africa.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Cape Town is GeoNames ID 3369157. Its recorded administrative path is City of Cape Town → Western Cape → South Africa, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Cape Town 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, Cape Town ranks 62 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected South Africa entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 12. Its 4,772,846 population value is 4.97 times the 961,194 median for the country cohort and 5.29 times the 902,588 regional median. Cape Town falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's South Africa population cohort. Cape Town's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Cape Town's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Gqeberha at 663.284 km with 1,050,078 recorded people; Bloemfontein at 910.957 km with 556,637 recorded people; Evaton at 1,221.952 km with 725,468 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 558.668 km. Compared with Gqeberha, Cape Town's recorded population is 4.55 times as large. Against Cape Town, Gqeberha follows Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality → Eastern Cape → South Africa in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Africa cohort, uses the shared Africa/Johannesburg identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Cape Town's. Against Cape Town, Bloemfontein follows Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality → Free State → South Africa in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Africa cohort, uses the shared Africa/Johannesburg identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Cape Town's. Against Cape Town, Evaton follows Sedibeng District Municipality → Gauteng → South Africa in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Africa cohort, uses the shared Africa/Johannesburg identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Cape Town's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,195 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cape Town'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 3369157, the coordinate pair 33.9258 / 18.4232, country rank 2 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 964420 at 663.284 km bind Cape Town to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cape Town's reference point is 33.9258° south and 18.4232° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Johannesburg is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Cape Town's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Cape Town's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cape Town's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cape Town, 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
Cape Town's closest other entries in this atlas are Gqeberha (663.284 km), Bloemfontein (910.957 km), Evaton (1,221.952 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.