1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Philippines
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Cebu City—965,332, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Cebu City is GeoNames ID 1717512. Its recorded administrative path is Province of Cebu → Central Visayas → Philippines, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Cebu City 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, Cebu City ranks 576 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected Philippines entries it ranks 9; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 333. Its 965,332 population value is 1.21 times the 797,334 median for the country cohort and 0.96 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Cebu City sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Philippines population cohort. Cebu City'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.
Cebu City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Lapu-Lapu City at 6.465 km with 497,813 recorded people; Cagayan de Oro at 220.222 km with 741,617 recorded people; Budta at 351.318 km with 1,273,715 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 344.853 km. Compared with Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu City's recorded population is 1.94 times as large. Against Cebu City, Lapu-Lapu City follows Province of Cebu → Central Visayas → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Cebu City's. Against Cebu City, Cagayan de Oro follows Province of Misamis Oriental → Northern Mindanao → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Cebu City's. Against Cebu City, Budta follows Maguindanao del Norte → Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Cebu City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 90 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cebu City'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 1717512, the coordinate pair 10.3167 / 123.8907, country rank 9 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1707267 at 6.465 km bind Cebu City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cebu City's reference point is 10.3167° north and 123.8907° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Manila is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Cebu City's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Cebu City's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cebu City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cebu City, 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
Cebu City's closest other entries in this atlas are Lapu-Lapu City (6.465 km), Cagayan de Oro (220.222 km), Budta (351.318 km).
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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.
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