1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Yemen
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Mukalla—594,951, Asia/Aden, 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 Hadhramaut Governorate, Yemen.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Mukalla is GeoNames ID 78754. Its recorded administrative path is Al Mukalla City → Muhafazat Hadramaout → Yemen, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Mukalla 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, Mukalla ranks 942 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Yemen entries it ranks 6; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 192. Its 594,951 population value is 0.69 times the 856,057 median for the country cohort and 0.66 times the 902,588 regional median. Mukalla is rank 6 among the 6 selected Yemen entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Mukalla'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.
Mukalla's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Aden at 483.001 km with 1,079,670 recorded people; Sanaa at 535.971 km with 1,937,451 recorded people; Ibb at 536.312 km with 771,514 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 53.311 km. Compared with Aden, Mukalla's recorded population is 0.55 times as large. Against Mukalla, Aden follows Craiter → Aden → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Mukalla's. Against Mukalla, Sanaa follows Amanat Alasimah → Yemen in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Mukalla's. Against Mukalla, Ibb follows Al Mashannah → Ibb Governorate → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Mukalla's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,176 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Mukalla'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 78754, the coordinate pair 14.5425 / 49.1242, country rank 6 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 415189 at 483.001 km bind Mukalla to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Mukalla's reference point is 14.5425° north and 49.1242° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Aden is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Mukalla's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Mukalla's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Mukalla's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Mukalla, 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
Mukalla's closest other entries in this atlas are Aden (483.001 km), Sanaa (535.971 km), Ibb (536.312 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.