1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Saudi Arabia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Dammam—1,252,523, Asia/Riyadh, 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: port city in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dammam is GeoNames ID 110336. Its recorded administrative path is Eastern Province → Saudi Arabia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Dammam 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, Dammam ranks 411 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Saudi Arabia entries it ranks 5; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 84. Its 1,252,523 population value is 1.32 times the 946,697 median for the country cohort and 1.39 times the 902,588 regional median. Dammam sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Saudi Arabia population cohort. Dammam's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Dammam's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Al Ahmadi at 354.697 km with 637,411 recorded people; Riyadh at 390.839 km with 4,205,961 recorded people; Shiraz at 426 km with 1,249,942 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 71.303 km. Compared with Al Ahmadi, Dammam's recorded population is 1.97 times as large. Against Dammam, Al Ahmadi follows Al Ahmadi → Kuwait in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Kuwait cohort rather than Saudi Arabia, uses Asia/Kuwait instead of Asia/Riyadh, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Dammam's. Against Dammam, Riyadh follows Riyadh Region → Saudi Arabia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Saudi Arabia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Riyadh identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Dammam's. Against Dammam, Shiraz follows Shahrestan-e Shiraz → Fars → Iran in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Iran cohort rather than Saudi Arabia, uses Asia/Tehran instead of Asia/Riyadh, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Dammam's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,145 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dammam'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 110336, the coordinate pair 26.4344 / 50.1033, country rank 5 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 285839 at 354.697 km bind Dammam to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dammam's reference point is 26.4344° north and 50.1033° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Riyadh is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Dammam's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Dammam's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dammam's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dammam, 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
Dammam's closest other entries in this atlas are Al Ahmadi (354.697 km), Riyadh (390.839 km), Shiraz (426 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.