1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Saudi Arabia
Compare this sourced profile of Ha'il, Saudi Arabia 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 Ha'il—605,930, Asia/Riyadh, 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 Saudi Arabia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ha'il is GeoNames ID 106281. Its recorded administrative path is Ha'il Region → Saudi Arabia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Ha'il 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, Ha'il ranks 920 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Saudi Arabia entries it ranks 10; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 187. Its 605,930 population value is 0.64 times the 946,697 median for the country cohort and 0.67 times the 902,588 regional median. Ha'il sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Saudi Arabia entries. Ha'il's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Ha'il's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Buraydah at 262.611 km with 745,353 recorded people; Sultanah at 397.112 km with 946,697 recorded people; Madinah at 397.896 km with 1,300,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 135.285 km. Compared with Buraydah, Ha'il's recorded population is 0.81 times as large. Against Ha'il, Buraydah follows Al-Qassim Region → Saudi Arabia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Saudi Arabia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Riyadh identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Ha'il's. Against Ha'il, Sultanah follows Medina Region → Saudi Arabia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Saudi Arabia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Riyadh identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ha'il's. Against Ha'il, Madinah follows Medina Region → Saudi Arabia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Saudi Arabia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Riyadh identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Ha'il's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,081 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ha'il'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 106281, the coordinate pair 27.5219 / 41.6907, country rank 10 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 107304 at 262.611 km bind Ha'il to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ha'il's reference point is 27.5219° north and 41.6907° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Riyadh is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Ha'il's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Ha'il's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ha'il's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ha'il, 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
Ha'il's closest other entries in this atlas are Buraydah (262.611 km), Sultanah (397.112 km), Madinah (397.896 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.