1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Afghanistan
Compare this sourced profile of Mazār-e Sharīf, Afghanistan 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 Mazār-e Sharīf—523,300, Asia/Kabul, 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 Mazār-e Sharīf is GeoNames ID 1133616. Its recorded administrative path is Mazar-e Sharif → Balkh → Afghanistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Mazār-e Sharīf 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, Mazār-e Sharīf ranks 1,082 by recorded population. Inside the 4 selected Afghanistan entries it ranks 3; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 570. Its 523,300 population value is 0.95 times the 548,800 median for the country cohort and 0.52 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Mazār-e Sharīf is rank 3 among the 4 selected Afghanistan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Mazār-e Sharīf'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.
Mazār-e Sharīf's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dushanbe at 250.675 km with 679,400 recorded people; Kabul at 305.81 km with 4,434,550 recorded people; Samarkand at 327.777 km with 595,200 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 77.102 km. Compared with Dushanbe, Mazār-e Sharīf's recorded population is 0.77 times as large. Against Mazār-e Sharīf, Dushanbe follows Dushanbe → Tajikistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Tajikistan cohort rather than Afghanistan, uses Asia/Dushanbe instead of Asia/Kabul, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Mazār-e Sharīf's. Against Mazār-e Sharīf, Kabul follows Kabul → Afghanistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Afghanistan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kabul identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Mazār-e Sharīf's. Against Mazār-e Sharīf, Samarkand follows Samarqand Region → Uzbekistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Uzbekistan cohort rather than Afghanistan, uses Asia/Samarkand instead of Asia/Kabul, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Mazār-e Sharīf's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,069 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Mazār-e Sharīf'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 1133616, the coordinate pair 36.7090 / 67.1109, country rank 3 of 4, and neighbor GeoNames 1221874 at 250.675 km bind Mazār-e Sharīf to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Mazār-e Sharīf's reference point is 36.7090° north and 67.1109° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kabul is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Mazār-e Sharīf's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Mazār-e Sharīf's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Mazār-e Sharīf's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Mazār-e Sharīf, 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
Mazār-e Sharīf's closest other entries in this atlas are Dushanbe (250.675 km), Kabul (305.81 km), Samarkand (327.777 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
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.