1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Morocco
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Meknes—568,295, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: city in Morocco.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Meknes is GeoNames ID 2542715. Its recorded administrative path is Meknes → Fes-Meknes → Morocco, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Meknes 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 2024-01-18; 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, Meknes ranks 982 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected Morocco entries it ranks 8; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 202. Its 568,295 population value is 0.57 times the 995,871 median for the country cohort and 0.63 times the 902,588 regional median. Meknes is rank 8 among the 9 selected Morocco entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Meknes's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Meknes's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Fez at 52.78 km with 1,191,905 recorded people; Salé at 116.733 km with 972,299 recorded people; Rabat at 119.293 km with 1,655,753 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 66.513 km. Compared with Fez, Meknes's recorded population is 0.48 times as large. Against Meknes, Fez follows Fes → Fes-Meknes → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Meknes's. Against Meknes, Salé follows Sale → Rabat-Sale-Kenitra → Morocco in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Meknes's. Against Meknes, Rabat follows Rabat → Rabat-Sale-Kenitra → Morocco in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Meknes's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 459 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Meknes's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 2542715, the coordinate pair 33.8935 / 5.5473, country rank 8 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 2548885 at 52.78 km bind Meknes to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Meknes's reference point is 33.8935° north and 5.5473° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Casablanca is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Meknes's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Meknes's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Meknes's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Meknes, 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
Meknes's closest other entries in this atlas are Fez (52.78 km), Salé (116.733 km), Rabat (119.293 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-18; 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.