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 General Santos—722,059, 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 in the Philippines.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind General Santos is GeoNames ID 1713022. Its recorded administrative path is Province of South Cotabato → Soccsksargen → Philippines, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. General Santos 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 2026-06-23; 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, General Santos ranks 768 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected Philippines entries it ranks 14; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 432. Its 722,059 population value is 0.91 times the 797,334 median for the country cohort and 0.72 times the 1,008,426 regional median. General Santos sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Philippines entries. General Santos'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.
General Santos's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Davao City at 117.37 km with 1,848,947 recorded people; Malingao at 139.649 km with 1,121,974 recorded people; Budta at 145.817 km with 1,273,715 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 28.447 km. Compared with Davao City, General Santos's recorded population is 0.39 times as large. Against General Santos, Davao City follows Province of Davao del Sur → Davao Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above General Santos's. Against General Santos, 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above General Santos's. Against General Santos, 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above General Santos's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 759 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. General Santos'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 1713022, the coordinate pair 6.1128 / 125.1717, country rank 14 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1715348 at 117.37 km bind General Santos to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
General Santos's reference point is 6.1128° north and 125.1717° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Manila is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. General Santos's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. General Santos's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. General Santos's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for General Santos, 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
General Santos's closest other entries in this atlas are Davao City (117.37 km), Malingao (139.649 km), Budta (145.817 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-23; 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.