1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Saudi Arabia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Jeddah—4,697,000, 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 Jeddah is GeoNames ID 105343. Its recorded administrative path is Mecca Region → Saudi Arabia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Jeddah 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 2024-04-21; 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, Jeddah ranks 65 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Saudi Arabia entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 13. Its 4,697,000 population value is 4.96 times the 946,697 median for the country cohort and 5.20 times the 902,588 regional median. Jeddah falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Saudi Arabia population cohort. Jeddah's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Jeddah's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Makkah at 66.544 km with 1,578,722 recorded people; Ta'if at 129.64 km with 688,693 recorded people; Port Sudan at 292.26 km with 489,725 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 225.716 km. Compared with Makkah, Jeddah's recorded population is 2.98 times as large. Against Jeddah, Makkah follows Mecca 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Jeddah's. Against Jeddah, Ta'if follows Mecca 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is below Jeddah's. Against Jeddah, Port Sudan follows Red Sea → Sudan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Sudan cohort rather than Saudi Arabia, uses Africa/Khartoum instead of Asia/Riyadh, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Jeddah's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 533 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jeddah'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 105343, the coordinate pair 21.4901 / 39.1862, country rank 1 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 104515 at 66.544 km bind Jeddah to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Jeddah's reference point is 21.4901° north and 39.1862° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Riyadh is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Jeddah's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Jeddah's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jeddah's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jeddah, 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
Jeddah's closest other entries in this atlas are Makkah (66.544 km), Ta'if (129.64 km), Port Sudan (292.26 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-04-21; 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.