1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
South Africa
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Gqeberha—1,050,078, Africa/Johannesburg, 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 Eastern Cape, South Africa.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Gqeberha is GeoNames ID 964420. Its recorded administrative path is Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality → Eastern Cape → South Africa, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Gqeberha 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 2025-12-03; 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, Gqeberha ranks 511 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected South Africa entries it ranks 6; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 104. Its 1,050,078 population value is 1.09 times the 961,194 median for the country cohort and 1.16 times the 902,588 regional median. Gqeberha sits in the second quarter of this atlas's South Africa population cohort. Gqeberha'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.
Gqeberha's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bloemfontein at 541.168 km with 556,637 recorded people; Pietermaritzburg at 661.083 km with 839,327 recorded people; Cape Town at 663.284 km with 4,772,846 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 122.116 km. Compared with Bloemfontein, Gqeberha's recorded population is 1.89 times as large. Against Gqeberha, Bloemfontein follows Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality → Free State → South Africa in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Africa cohort, uses the shared Africa/Johannesburg identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Gqeberha's. Against Gqeberha, Pietermaritzburg follows uMgungundlovu District Municipality → KwaZulu-Natal → South Africa in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Africa cohort, uses the shared Africa/Johannesburg identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Gqeberha's. Against Gqeberha, Cape Town follows City of Cape Town → Western Cape → South Africa in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Africa cohort, uses the shared Africa/Johannesburg identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Gqeberha's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,185 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Gqeberha'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 964420, the coordinate pair 33.9611 / 25.6149, country rank 6 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 1018725 at 541.168 km bind Gqeberha to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Gqeberha's reference point is 33.9611° south and 25.6149° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Johannesburg is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Gqeberha's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Gqeberha's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Gqeberha's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Gqeberha, 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
Gqeberha's closest other entries in this atlas are Bloemfontein (541.168 km), Pietermaritzburg (661.083 km), Cape Town (663.284 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-03; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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