1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Morocco
Compare this sourced profile of Casablanca, Morocco 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 Casablanca—3,665,954, Africa/Casablanca, 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: largest city of Morocco.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Casablanca is GeoNames ID 2553604. Its recorded administrative path is Casablanca → Casablanca-Settat → Morocco, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Casablanca 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, Casablanca ranks 95 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected Morocco entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 20. Its 3,665,954 population value is 3.68 times the 995,871 median for the country cohort and 4.06 times the 902,588 regional median. Casablanca is rank 1 among the 9 selected Morocco entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Casablanca'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.
Casablanca's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Rabat at 86.09 km with 1,655,753 recorded people; Salé at 91.162 km with 972,299 recorded people; Meknes at 193.848 km with 568,295 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 107.758 km. Compared with Rabat, Casablanca's recorded population is 2.21 times as large. Against Casablanca, Rabat follows Rabat → Rabat-Sale-Kenitra → Morocco in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Casablanca's. Against Casablanca, Salé follows Sale → Rabat-Sale-Kenitra → Morocco in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Casablanca's. Against Casablanca, Meknes follows Meknes → Fes-Meknes → Morocco in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Casablanca's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 639 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Casablanca'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 2553604, the coordinate pair 33.5883 / 7.6114, country rank 1 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 2538475 at 86.09 km bind Casablanca to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Casablanca's reference point is 33.5883° north and 7.6114° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Casablanca is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Casablanca's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Casablanca's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Casablanca's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Casablanca, 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
Casablanca's closest other entries in this atlas are Rabat (86.09 km), Salé (91.162 km), Meknes (193.848 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.