1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Morocco
Compare this sourced profile of Fez, Morocco 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 Fez—1,191,905, Africa/Casablanca, 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 Morocco.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Fez is GeoNames ID 2548885. Its recorded administrative path is Fes → Fes-Meknes → Morocco, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Fes 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, Fez ranks 450 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected Morocco entries it ranks 3; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 92. Its 1,191,905 population value is 1.20 times the 995,871 median for the country cohort and 1.32 times the 902,588 regional median. Fez is rank 3 among the 9 selected Morocco entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Fez'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.
Fez's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Meknes at 52.78 km with 568,295 recorded people; Salé at 165.693 km with 972,299 recorded people; Rabat at 168.873 km with 1,655,753 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 116.093 km. Compared with Meknes, Fez's recorded population is 2.10 times as large. Against Fez, Meknes follows Meknes → Fes-Meknes → Morocco in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Fez's. Against Fez, Salé follows Sale → Rabat-Sale-Kenitra → Morocco in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Fez's. Against Fez, Rabat follows Rabat → Rabat-Sale-Kenitra → Morocco in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Fez's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 459 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Fez's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 2548885, the coordinate pair 34.0331 / 5.0003, country rank 3 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 2542715 at 52.78 km bind Fez to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Fez's reference point is 34.0331° north and 5.0003° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Casablanca is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Fez's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Fez's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Fez's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Fez, 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
Fez's closest other entries in this atlas are Meknes (52.78 km), Salé (165.693 km), Rabat (168.873 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.