1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for João Pessoa—817,511, America/Fortaleza, 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: human settlement in Brazil.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind João Pessoa is GeoNames ID 3397277. Its recorded administrative path is Joao Pessoa → Paraiba → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. João Pessoa 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 2026-04-13; 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, João Pessoa ranks 681 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 23; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 99. Its 817,511 population value is 1.08 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 1.00 times the 816,326 regional median. João Pessoa sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. João Pessoa'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.
João Pessoa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Recife at 104.419 km with 1,653,461 recorded people; Jaboatão dos Guararapes at 112.2 km with 644,037 recorded people; Natal at 151.685 km with 896,708 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 47.266 km. Compared with Recife, João Pessoa's recorded population is 0.49 times as large. Against João Pessoa, Recife follows Recife → Pernambuco → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Recife instead of America/Fortaleza, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above João Pessoa's. Against João Pessoa, Jaboatão dos Guararapes follows Jaboatao Dos Guararapes → Pernambuco → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Recife instead of America/Fortaleza, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below João Pessoa's. Against João Pessoa, Natal follows Natal → Rio Grande do Norte → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Fortaleza identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above João Pessoa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 711 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. João Pessoa'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 3397277, the coordinate pair 7.1150 / 34.8631, country rank 23 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3390760 at 104.419 km bind João Pessoa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
João Pessoa's reference point is 7.1150° south and 34.8631° west. The IANA identifier America/Fortaleza is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. João Pessoa's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. João Pessoa's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. João Pessoa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for João Pessoa, 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
João Pessoa's closest other entries in this atlas are Recife (104.419 km), Jaboatão dos Guararapes (112.2 km), Natal (151.685 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.