1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of Mérida, Mexico 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 Mérida—1,201,000, America/Merida, 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: capital city of Yucatan, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Mérida is GeoNames ID 3523349. Its recorded administrative path is Merida → Yucatan → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Mérida 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, Mérida ranks 441 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 11; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 61. Its 1,201,000 population value is 1.49 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 1.47 times the 816,326 regional median. Mérida sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Mexico population cohort. Mérida'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.
Mérida's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Cancun at 289.019 km with 888,797 recorded people; Tuxtla at 595.382 km with 604,147 recorded people; San Pedro Sula at 630.225 km with 801,259 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 341.206 km. Compared with Cancun, Mérida's recorded population is 1.35 times as large. Against Mérida, Cancun follows Benito Juarez → Quintana Roo → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses America/Cancun instead of America/Merida, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Mérida's. Against Mérida, Tuxtla follows Tuxtla Gutierrez → Chiapas → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Merida identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Mérida's. Against Mérida, San Pedro Sula follows San Pedro Sula → Cortes Department → Honduras in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Honduras cohort rather than Mexico, uses America/Tegucigalpa instead of America/Merida, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Mérida's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,103 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Mérida'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 3523349, the coordinate pair 20.9670 / 89.6232, country rank 11 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 3531673 at 289.019 km bind Mérida to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Mérida's reference point is 20.9670° north and 89.6232° west. The IANA identifier America/Merida is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Mérida's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Mérida's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Mérida's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Mérida, 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
Mérida's closest other entries in this atlas are Cancun (289.019 km), Tuxtla (595.382 km), San Pedro Sula (630.225 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.