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 Maceió—1,031,597, America/Maceio, 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 Maceió is GeoNames ID 3395981. Its recorded administrative path is Maceio → Alagoas → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Maceió 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, Maceió ranks 522 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 14; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 69. Its 1,031,597 population value is 1.36 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 1.26 times the 816,326 regional median. Maceió sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. Maceió'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.
Maceió's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jaboatão dos Guararapes at 189.969 km with 644,037 recorded people; Aracaju at 201.371 km with 664,908 recorded people; Recife at 202.32 km with 1,653,461 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 12.351 km. Compared with Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Maceió's recorded population is 1.60 times as large. Against Maceió, Jaboatão dos Guararapes follows Jaboatao Dos Guararapes → Pernambuco → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Recife instead of America/Maceio, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Maceió's. Against Maceió, Aracaju follows Aracaju → Sergipe → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Maceio identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Maceió's. Against Maceió, Recife follows Recife → Pernambuco → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Recife instead of America/Maceio, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Maceió's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 966 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Maceió'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 3395981, the coordinate pair 9.6658 / 35.7353, country rank 14 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 6317344 at 189.969 km bind Maceió to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Maceió's reference point is 9.6658° south and 35.7353° west. The IANA identifier America/Maceio is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Maceió's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Maceió's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Maceió's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Maceió, 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
Maceió's closest other entries in this atlas are Jaboatão dos Guararapes (189.969 km), Aracaju (201.371 km), Recife (202.32 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.
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