1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Yemen
Compare this sourced profile of Ibb, Yemen 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 Ibb—771,514, Asia/Aden, 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 Yemen.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ibb is GeoNames ID 74477. Its recorded administrative path is Al Mashannah → Ibb Governorate → Yemen, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Ibb 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, Ibb ranks 713 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Yemen entries it ranks 4; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 145. Its 771,514 population value is 0.90 times the 856,057 median for the country cohort and 0.85 times the 902,588 regional median. Ibb is rank 4 among the 6 selected Yemen entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Ibb'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.
Ibb's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ta'izz at 46.486 km with 940,600 recorded people; Sanaa at 154.342 km with 1,937,451 recorded people; Aden at 161.191 km with 1,079,670 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 114.705 km. Compared with Ta'izz, Ibb's recorded population is 0.82 times as large. Against Ibb, Ta'izz follows Salh → Ta'izz → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Ibb's. Against Ibb, Sanaa follows Amanat Alasimah → Yemen in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ibb's. Against Ibb, Aden follows Craiter → Aden → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Ibb's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 405 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ibb'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 74477, the coordinate pair 13.9667 / 44.1833, country rank 4 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 70225 at 46.486 km bind Ibb to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ibb's reference point is 13.9667° north and 44.1833° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Aden is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Ibb's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ibb's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ibb's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ibb, 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
Ibb's closest other entries in this atlas are Ta'izz (46.486 km), Sanaa (154.342 km), Aden (161.191 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.