1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Sudan
Compare this sourced profile of Khartoum, Sudan 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 Khartoum—1,974,647, Africa/Khartoum, 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: capital city of Sudan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Khartoum is GeoNames ID 379252. Its recorded administrative path is Khartoum → Sudan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Khartoum 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 2025-11-03; 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, Khartoum ranks 206 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected Sudan entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 43. Its 1,974,647 population value is 1.95 times the 1,012,211 median for the country cohort and 2.19 times the 902,588 regional median. Khartoum is rank 1 among the 5 selected Sudan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Khartoum'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.
Khartoum's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Khartoum North at 10.842 km with 1,012,211 recorded people; Omdurman at 11.861 km with 1,849,659 recorded people; Port Sudan at 671.377 km with 489,725 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 660.535 km. Compared with Khartoum North, Khartoum's recorded population is 1.95 times as large. Against Khartoum, Khartoum North follows Khartoum → Sudan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Sudan cohort, uses the shared Africa/Khartoum identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Khartoum's. Against Khartoum, Omdurman follows Khartoum → Sudan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Sudan cohort, uses the shared Africa/Khartoum identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Khartoum's. Against Khartoum, Port Sudan follows Red Sea → Sudan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Sudan cohort, uses the shared Africa/Khartoum identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Khartoum's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 163 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Khartoum's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 379252, the coordinate pair 15.5518 / 32.5324, country rank 1 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 379251 at 10.842 km bind Khartoum to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Khartoum's reference point is 15.5518° north and 32.5324° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Khartoum is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Khartoum's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Khartoum's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Khartoum's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Khartoum, 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
Khartoum's closest other entries in this atlas are Khartoum North (10.842 km), Omdurman (11.861 km), Port Sudan (671.377 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-11-03; 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.