1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Congo - Kinshasa
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Likasi—635,768, Africa/Lubumbashi, 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: town in the Haut-Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Likasi is GeoNames ID 922741. Its recorded administrative path is Likasi → Haut-Katanga → Congo - Kinshasa, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Likasi 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 2023-11-29; 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, Likasi ranks 875 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Congo - Kinshasa entries it ranks 8; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 180. Its 635,768 population value is 0.78 times the 816,811 median for the country cohort and 0.70 times the 902,588 regional median. Likasi sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Congo - Kinshasa entries. Likasi'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.
Likasi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Lubumbashi at 110.491 km with 2,221,925 recorded people; Kolwezi at 142.04 km with 790,248 recorded people; Kitwe at 258.22 km with 665,961 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 147.729 km. Compared with Lubumbashi, Likasi's recorded population is 0.29 times as large. Against Likasi, Lubumbashi follows Lubumbashi (city) → Haut-Katanga → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort, uses the shared Africa/Lubumbashi identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Likasi's. Against Likasi, Kolwezi follows Kolwezi → Lualaba → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort, uses the shared Africa/Lubumbashi identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Likasi's. Against Likasi, Kitwe follows Copperbelt → Zambia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Zambia cohort rather than Congo - Kinshasa, uses Africa/Lusaka instead of Africa/Lubumbashi, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Likasi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 739 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Likasi'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 922741, the coordinate pair 10.9830 / 26.7384, country rank 8 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 922704 at 110.491 km bind Likasi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Likasi's reference point is 10.9830° south and 26.7384° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Lubumbashi is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Likasi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Likasi's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Likasi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Likasi, 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
Likasi's closest other entries in this atlas are Lubumbashi (110.491 km), Kolwezi (142.04 km), Kitwe (258.22 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-11-29; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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