1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iran
Compare this sourced profile of Isfahan, Iran 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 Isfahan—1,547,164, Asia/Tehran, 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 Isfahan Province, Iran.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Isfahan is GeoNames ID 418863. Its recorded administrative path is Isfahan → Iran, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Isfahan 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 2026-07-02; 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, Isfahan ranks 301 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Iran entries it ranks 3; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 65. Its 1,547,164 population value is 1.84 times the 841,145 median for the country cohort and 1.71 times the 902,588 regional median. Isfahan falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Iran population cohort. Isfahan's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Isfahan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Qom at 233.037 km with 900,000 recorded people; Arak at 243.737 km with 503,647 recorded people; Ahvaz at 318.617 km with 841,145 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 85.58 km. Compared with Qom, Isfahan's recorded population is 1.72 times as large. Against Isfahan, Qom follows Qom Province → Iran in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iran cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tehran identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Isfahan's. Against Isfahan, Arak follows Markazi → Iran in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iran cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tehran identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Isfahan's. Against Isfahan, Ahvaz follows Khuzestan → Iran in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iran cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tehran identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Isfahan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,042 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Isfahan'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 418863, the coordinate pair 32.6525 / 51.6746, country rank 3 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 119208 at 233.037 km bind Isfahan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Isfahan's reference point is 32.6525° north and 51.6746° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tehran is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Isfahan's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Isfahan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Isfahan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Isfahan, 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
Isfahan's closest other entries in this atlas are Qom (233.037 km), Arak (243.737 km), Ahvaz (318.617 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-02; 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.