1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Spain
Compare this sourced profile of Málaga, Spain 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 Málaga—592,346, Europe/Madrid, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Málaga is GeoNames ID 2514256. Its recorded administrative path is Provincia de Malaga → Andalusia → Spain, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Málaga 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 2026-04-30; 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, Málaga ranks 947 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Spain entries it ranks 6; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 84. Its 592,346 population value is 0.78 times the 755,663 median for the country cohort and 0.89 times the 664,046 regional median. Málaga is rank 6 among the 6 selected Spain entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Málaga'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.
Málaga's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Seville city at 156.265 km with 686,741 recorded people; Tangier at 162.876 km with 1,035,141 recorded people; Fez at 303.373 km with 1,191,905 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 147.108 km. Compared with Seville city, Málaga's recorded population is 0.86 times as large. Against Málaga, Seville city follows Provincia de Sevilla → Andalusia → Spain in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Spain cohort, uses the shared Europe/Madrid identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Málaga's. Against Málaga, Tangier follows Tanger-Assilah → Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima → Morocco in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Morocco cohort rather than Spain, uses Africa/Casablanca instead of Europe/Madrid, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Málaga's. Against Málaga, Fez follows Fes → Fes-Meknes → Morocco in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Morocco cohort rather than Spain, uses Africa/Casablanca instead of Europe/Madrid, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Málaga's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 892 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Málaga'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 2514256, the coordinate pair 36.7202 / 4.4203, country rank 6 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 2510911 at 156.265 km bind Málaga to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Málaga's reference point is 36.7202° north and 4.4203° west. The IANA identifier Europe/Madrid is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Málaga's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Málaga's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Málaga's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Málaga, 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
Málaga's closest other entries in this atlas are Seville city (156.265 km), Tangier (162.876 km), Fez (303.373 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-30; 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.