1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Cameroon
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Douala—1,338,082, Africa/Douala, 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 Cameroon.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Douala is GeoNames ID 2232593. Its recorded administrative path is Littoral → Cameroon, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Douala 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 2026-04-13; 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, Douala ranks 376 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Cameroon entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 75. Its 1,338,082 population value is 1.01 times the 1,318,726 median for the country cohort and 1.48 times the 902,588 regional median. Douala is rank 1 among the 2 selected Cameroon entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Douala'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.
Douala's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Calabar at 183.205 km with 540,000 recorded people; Yaoundé at 202.059 km with 1,299,369 recorded people; Aba at 284.569 km with 1,160,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 101.364 km. Compared with Calabar, Douala's recorded population is 2.48 times as large. Against Douala, Calabar follows Calabar Municipal → Cross River State → Nigeria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Nigeria cohort rather than Cameroon, uses Africa/Lagos instead of Africa/Douala, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Douala's. Against Douala, Yaoundé follows Centre → Cameroon in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Cameroon cohort, uses the shared Africa/Douala identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Douala's. Against Douala, Aba follows Aba South → Abia State → Nigeria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Nigeria cohort rather than Cameroon, uses Africa/Lagos instead of Africa/Douala, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Douala's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 956 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Douala'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 2232593, the coordinate pair 4.0483 / 9.7043, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2346229 at 183.205 km bind Douala to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Douala's reference point is 4.0483° north and 9.7043° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Douala is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Douala's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Douala's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Douala's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Douala, 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
Douala's closest other entries in this atlas are Calabar (183.205 km), Yaoundé (202.059 km), Aba (284.569 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.