1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of Chihuahua City, Mexico 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 Chihuahua City—925,762, America/Chihuahua, 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 State of Chihuahua, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Chihuahua City is GeoNames ID 4014338. Its recorded administrative path is Chihuahua → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Chihuahua 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, Chihuahua City ranks 595 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 16; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 82. Its 925,762 population value is 1.15 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 1.13 times the 816,326 regional median. Chihuahua City sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Mexico population cohort. Chihuahua 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.
Chihuahua City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ciudad Juárez at 344.889 km with 1,512,450 recorded people; El Paso at 349.41 km with 678,815 recorded people; Torreón at 433.578 km with 735,340 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 88.689 km. Compared with Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua City's recorded population is 0.61 times as large. Against Chihuahua City, Ciudad Juárez follows Juarez → Chihuahua → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses America/Ciudad_Juarez instead of America/Chihuahua, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Chihuahua City's. Against Chihuahua City, El Paso follows El Paso County → Texas → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Mexico, uses America/Denver instead of America/Chihuahua, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Chihuahua City's. Against Chihuahua City, Torreón follows Torreon → Coahuila → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses America/Monterrey instead of America/Chihuahua, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Chihuahua City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,139 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Chihuahua City'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 4014338, the coordinate pair 28.6353 / 106.0889, country rank 16 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 4013708 at 344.889 km bind Chihuahua City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Chihuahua City's reference point is 28.6353° north and 106.0889° west. The IANA identifier America/Chihuahua is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Chihuahua City's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Chihuahua City's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Chihuahua City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Chihuahua 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
Chihuahua City's closest other entries in this atlas are Ciudad Juárez (344.889 km), El Paso (349.41 km), Torreón (433.578 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.