Huambo

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Huambo is GeoNames ID 3348313. Its recorded administrative path is Huambo → Angola, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat.

Huambo 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 2026-05-02; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Huambo ranks 938 by recorded population. Inside the 14 selected Angola entries it ranks 11; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 191.

Its 595,304 population value is 0.91 times the 654,033 median for the country cohort and 0.66 times the 902,588 regional median. Huambo sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Angola entries.

Huambo'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

Huambo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Benguela at 254.44 km with 555,124 recorded people; Lubango at 339.861 km with 600,751 recorded people; Calumbo at 476.403 km with 652,270 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 221.963 km. Compared with Benguela, Huambo's recorded population is 1.07 times as large. Against Huambo, Benguela follows Benguela → Angola in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Angola cohort, uses the shared Africa/Luanda identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class.

Its recorded population is below Huambo's. Against Huambo, Lubango follows Huila → Angola in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Angola cohort, uses the shared Africa/Luanda identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Huambo's. Against Huambo, Calumbo follows Bengo → Angola in the source.

Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Angola cohort, uses the shared Africa/Luanda identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Huambo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,073 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Huambo'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 3348313, the coordinate pair 12.7761 / 15.7392, country rank 11 of 14, and neighbor GeoNames 3351663 at 254.44 km bind Huambo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Huambo's reference point is 12.7761° south and 15.7392° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Luanda is shared by 14 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Huambo's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label.

Huambo's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Huambo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Huambo, 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.