1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Djibouti
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Djibouti—626,512, Africa/Djibouti, 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 city of Djibouti.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Djibouti is GeoNames ID 223817. Its recorded administrative path is Djibouti, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Djibouti 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 2023-11-29; 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, Djibouti ranks 891 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Djibouti entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 183. Its 626,512 population value is 1.06 times the 590,431 median for the country cohort and 0.69 times the 902,588 regional median. Djibouti is rank 1 among the 2 selected Djibouti entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Djibouti'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.
Djibouti's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Balbala at 5.151 km with 554,350 recorded people; Borama at 183.84 km with 597,842 recorded people; Ta'izz at 240.88 km with 940,600 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 235.729 km. Compared with Balbala, Djibouti's recorded population is 1.13 times as large. Against Djibouti, Balbala follows Djibouti in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Djibouti cohort, uses the shared Africa/Djibouti identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Djibouti's. Against Djibouti, Borama follows Awdal → Somalia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Somalia cohort rather than Djibouti, uses Africa/Mogadishu instead of Africa/Djibouti, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Djibouti's. Against Djibouti, Ta'izz follows Salh → Ta'izz → Yemen in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Yemen cohort rather than Djibouti, uses Asia/Aden instead of Africa/Djibouti, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Djibouti's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 51 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Djibouti'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 223817, the coordinate pair 11.5890 / 43.1450, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 7648070 at 5.151 km bind Djibouti to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Djibouti's reference point is 11.5890° north and 43.1450° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Djibouti is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Djibouti's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Djibouti's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Djibouti's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Djibouti, 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
Djibouti's closest other entries in this atlas are Balbala (5.151 km), Borama (183.84 km), Ta'izz (240.88 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2023-11-29; 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.