1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Morocco
Compare this sourced profile of Marrakech, Morocco 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 Marrakech—995,871, Africa/Casablanca, 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 Marrakech is GeoNames ID 2542997. Its recorded administrative path is Marrakech → Marrakesh-Safi → Morocco, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Marrakesh 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 2026-04-14; 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, Marrakech ranks 556 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected Morocco entries it ranks 5; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 111. Its 995,871 population value is 1.00 times the 995,871 median for the country cohort and 1.10 times the 902,588 regional median. Marrakech is rank 5 among the 9 selected Morocco entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Marrakech'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.
Marrakech's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Agadir at 203.496 km with 698,310 recorded people; Casablanca at 220.318 km with 3,665,954 recorded people; Rabat at 286.143 km with 1,655,753 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 82.647 km. Compared with Agadir, Marrakech's recorded population is 1.43 times as large. Against Marrakech, Agadir follows Agadir-Ida-ou-Tnan → Souss-Massa → Morocco in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Marrakech's. Against Marrakech, Casablanca follows Casablanca → Casablanca-Settat → Morocco in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Marrakech's. Against Marrakech, Rabat follows Rabat → Rabat-Sale-Kenitra → Morocco in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Marrakech's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,008 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Marrakech'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 2542997, the coordinate pair 31.6342 / 7.9999, country rank 5 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 2561668 at 203.496 km bind Marrakech to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Marrakech's reference point is 31.6342° north and 7.9999° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Casablanca is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Marrakech's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Marrakech's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Marrakech's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Marrakech, 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
Marrakech's closest other entries in this atlas are Agadir (203.496 km), Casablanca (220.318 km), Rabat (286.143 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.