1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Türkiye
Compare this sourced profile of Malatya, Türkiye 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 Malatya—750,491, Europe/Istanbul, 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: metropolitan municipality in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Malatya is GeoNames ID 304922. Its recorded administrative path is Malatya → Türkiye, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Malatya 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, Malatya ranks 732 by recorded population. Inside the 26 selected Türkiye entries it ranks 16; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 151. Its 750,491 population value is 0.95 times the 792,110 median for the country cohort and 0.83 times the 902,588 regional median. Malatya sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Türkiye entries. Malatya'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.
Malatya's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Gaziantep at 165.385 km with 2,222,415 recorded people; Diyarbakır at 173.169 km with 1,833,684 recorded people; Kayseri at 249.879 km with 1,452,458 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 84.494 km. Compared with Gaziantep, Malatya's recorded population is 0.34 times as large. Against Malatya, Gaziantep follows Gaziantep → Türkiye in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Malatya's. Against Malatya, Diyarbakır follows Diyarbakir Province → Türkiye in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Malatya's. Against Malatya, Kayseri follows Kayseri → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Malatya's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 916 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Malatya'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 304922, the coordinate pair 38.3502 / 38.3167, country rank 16 of 26, and neighbor GeoNames 314830 at 165.385 km bind Malatya to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Malatya's reference point is 38.3502° north and 38.3167° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Istanbul is shared by 26 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Malatya's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Malatya's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Malatya's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Malatya, 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
Malatya's closest other entries in this atlas are Gaziantep (165.385 km), Diyarbakır (173.169 km), Kayseri (249.879 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.