1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Venezuela
Compare this sourced profile of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela 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 Ciudad Guayana—978,202, America/Caracas, 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 Bolívar, Venezuela.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ciudad Guayana is GeoNames ID 3645528. Its recorded administrative path is Municipio Caroni → Bolivar → Venezuela, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Ciudad Guayana 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 2025-06-24; 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, Ciudad Guayana ranks 567 by recorded population. Inside the 7 selected Venezuela entries it ranks 5; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 77. Its 978,202 population value is 0.79 times the 1,240,714 median for the country cohort and 1.20 times the 816,326 regional median. Ciudad Guayana is rank 5 among the 7 selected Venezuela entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Ciudad Guayana'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.
Ciudad Guayana's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Maturín at 166.096 km with 647,459 recorded people; Barcelona (Venezuela) at 299.905 km with 815,141 recorded people; Caracas at 522.077 km with 3,000,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 355.981 km. Compared with Maturín, Ciudad Guayana's recorded population is 1.51 times as large. Against Ciudad Guayana, Maturín follows Municipio Maturin → Monagas → Venezuela in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Venezuela cohort, uses the shared America/Caracas identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ciudad Guayana's. Against Ciudad Guayana, Barcelona (Venezuela) follows Municipio Simon Bolivar → Anzoategui → Venezuela in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Venezuela cohort, uses the shared America/Caracas identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ciudad Guayana's. Against Ciudad Guayana, Caracas follows Municipio Libertador → Distrito Federal → Venezuela in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Venezuela cohort, uses the shared America/Caracas identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ciudad Guayana's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 918 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ciudad Guayana'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 3645528, the coordinate pair 8.3512 / 62.6410, country rank 5 of 7, and neighbor GeoNames 3778045 at 166.096 km bind Ciudad Guayana to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ciudad Guayana's reference point is 8.3512° north and 62.6410° west. The IANA identifier America/Caracas is shared by 7 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Ciudad Guayana's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ciudad Guayana's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ciudad Guayana's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ciudad Guayana, 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
Ciudad Guayana's closest other entries in this atlas are Maturín (166.096 km), Barcelona (Venezuela) (299.905 km), Caracas (522.077 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-24; 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.