1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Philippines
Compare this sourced profile of Malingao, Philippines 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 Malingao—1,121,974, Asia/Manila, 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 Malingao is GeoNames ID 1978681. Its recorded administrative path is Cotabato → Soccsksargen → Philippines, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Malingao 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 2017-12-13; 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, Malingao ranks 480 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected Philippines entries it ranks 7; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 280. Its 1,121,974 population value is 1.41 times the 797,334 median for the country cohort and 1.11 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Malingao sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Philippines population cohort. Malingao'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.
Malingao's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Budta at 6.195 km with 1,273,715 recorded people; Davao City at 125.919 km with 1,848,947 recorded people; General Santos at 139.649 km with 722,059 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 133.454 km. Compared with Budta, Malingao's recorded population is 0.88 times as large. Against Malingao, Budta follows Maguindanao del Norte → Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao → Philippines in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Malingao's. Against Malingao, Davao City follows Province of Davao del Sur → Davao Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Malingao's. Against Malingao, General Santos follows Province of South Cotabato → Soccsksargen → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Malingao's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 83 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Malingao's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. 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 1978681, the coordinate pair 7.1608 / 124.4750, country rank 7 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1723510 at 6.195 km bind Malingao to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Malingao's reference point is 7.1608° north and 124.4750° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Manila is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Malingao's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Malingao's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Malingao's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Malingao, 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
Malingao's closest other entries in this atlas are Budta (6.195 km), Davao City (125.919 km), General Santos (139.649 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2017-12-13; 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.