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 Davao City—1,848,947, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: city of the Philippines.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Davao City is GeoNames ID 1715348. Its recorded administrative path is Province of Davao del Sur → Davao Region → Philippines, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Davao 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, Davao City ranks 231 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected Philippines entries it ranks 2; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 137. Its 1,848,947 population value is 2.32 times the 797,334 median for the country cohort and 1.83 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Davao City falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Philippines population cohort. Davao City'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.
Davao City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are General Santos at 117.37 km with 722,059 recorded people; Malingao at 125.919 km with 1,121,974 recorded people; Budta at 130.246 km with 1,273,715 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 12.876 km. Compared with General Santos, Davao City's recorded population is 2.56 times as large. Against Davao City, General Santos follows Province of South Cotabato → Soccsksargen → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower 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 below Davao City's. Against Davao City, Malingao follows Cotabato → Soccsksargen → Philippines in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower 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 below Davao City's. Against Davao City, Budta follows Maguindanao del Norte → Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao → Philippines in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower 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 below Davao City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 759 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Davao 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 1715348, the coordinate pair 7.0731 / 125.6128, country rank 2 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1713022 at 117.37 km bind Davao City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Davao City's reference point is 7.0731° north and 125.6128° 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. Davao City's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Davao City's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Davao City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Davao 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
Davao City's closest other entries in this atlas are General Santos (117.37 km), Malingao (125.919 km), Budta (130.246 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.
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