1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of Macapá, Brazil 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 Macapá—512,902, America/Belem, 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: municipality of Amapá state, Brazil.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Macapá is GeoNames ID 3396016. Its recorded administrative path is Macapa → Amapa → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Macapá 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, Macapá ranks 1,109 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 44; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 182. Its 512,902 population value is 0.68 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.63 times the 816,326 regional median. Macapá sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. Macapá's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Macapá's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Belém at 329.79 km with 1,499,641 recorded people; Ananindeua at 337.815 km with 535,547 recorded people; São Luís at 804.262 km with 917,237 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 474.472 km. Compared with Belém, Macapá's recorded population is 0.34 times as large. Against Macapá, Belém follows Belem → Para → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Belem identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Macapá's. Against Macapá, Ananindeua follows Ananindeua → Para → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Belem identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Macapá's. Against Macapá, São Luís follows Sao Luis → Maranhao → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Fortaleza instead of America/Belem, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Macapá's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,132 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Macapá'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 3396016, the coordinate pair 0.0389 / 51.0664, country rank 44 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3405870 at 329.79 km bind Macapá to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Macapá's reference point is 0.0389° north and 51.0664° west. The IANA identifier America/Belem is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Macapá's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Macapá's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Macapá's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Macapá, 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
Macapá's closest other entries in this atlas are Belém (329.79 km), Ananindeua (337.815 km), São Luís (804.262 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.