1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of Mexicali, 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 Mexicali—1,032,686, America/Tijuana, 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 of the State of Baja California, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Mexicali is GeoNames ID 3996069. Its recorded administrative path is Mexicali → Baja California → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Mexicali 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, Mexicali ranks 520 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 15; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 68. Its 1,032,686 population value is 1.28 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 1.27 times the 816,326 regional median. Mexicali sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Mexico population cohort. Mexicali'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.
Mexicali's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tijuana at 145.848 km with 1,922,523 recorded people; San Diego at 160.379 km with 1,404,452 recorded people; Los Angeles at 303.661 km with 3,820,914 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 157.813 km. Compared with Tijuana, Mexicali's recorded population is 0.54 times as large. Against Mexicali, Tijuana follows Tijuana → Baja California → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Tijuana identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Mexicali's. Against Mexicali, San Diego follows San Diego County → California → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Mexico, uses America/Los_Angeles instead of America/Tijuana, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Mexicali's. Against Mexicali, Los Angeles follows Los Angeles County → California → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Mexico, uses America/Los_Angeles instead of America/Tijuana, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Mexicali's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 865 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Mexicali'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 3996069, the coordinate pair 32.6278 / 115.4545, country rank 15 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 3981609 at 145.848 km bind Mexicali to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Mexicali's reference point is 32.6278° north and 115.4545° west. The IANA identifier America/Tijuana is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Mexicali's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Mexicali's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Mexicali's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Mexicali, 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
Mexicali's closest other entries in this atlas are Tijuana (145.848 km), San Diego (160.379 km), Los Angeles (303.661 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 2026-04-14; 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.