1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Israel
Compare this sourced profile of Jerusalem, Israel 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 Jerusalem—971,800, Asia/Jerusalem, 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 the Middle East, holy to the three Abrahamic religions.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Jerusalem is GeoNames ID 281184. Its recorded administrative path is Jerusalem → Israel, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Jerusalem 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 2025-09-23; 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, Jerusalem ranks 573 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Israel entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 115. Its 971,800 population value is 1.00 times the 971,800 median for the country cohort and 1.08 times the 902,588 regional median. Jerusalem is rank 1 among the 1 selected Israel entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Jerusalem'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.
Jerusalem's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Amman at 71.865 km with 1,275,857 recorded people; Zarqa at 88.926 km with 792,665 recorded people; Irbid at 105.861 km with 569,068 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 33.996 km. Compared with Amman, Jerusalem's recorded population is 0.76 times as large. Against Jerusalem, Amman follows Amman → Jordan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Jordan cohort rather than Israel, uses Asia/Amman instead of Asia/Jerusalem, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Jerusalem's. Against Jerusalem, Zarqa follows Zarqa → Jordan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Jordan cohort rather than Israel, uses Asia/Amman instead of Asia/Jerusalem, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Jerusalem's. Against Jerusalem, Irbid follows Irbid → Jordan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Jordan cohort rather than Israel, uses Asia/Amman instead of Asia/Jerusalem, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Jerusalem's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 564 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jerusalem'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 281184, the coordinate pair 31.7690 / 35.2163, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 250441 at 71.865 km bind Jerusalem to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Jerusalem's reference point is 31.7690° north and 35.2163° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Jerusalem is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Jerusalem's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Jerusalem's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jerusalem's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jerusalem, 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
Jerusalem's closest other entries in this atlas are Amman (71.865 km), Zarqa (88.926 km), Irbid (105.861 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Jerusalem, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-09-23; 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.