1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iraq
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Nasiriyah—558,400, Asia/Baghdad, 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 Iraq.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Nasiriyah is GeoNames ID 98854. Its recorded administrative path is Nassriya District → Dhi Qar → Iraq, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Nasiriyah 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 2024-02-14; 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, Nasiriyah ranks 997 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Iraq entries it ranks 10; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 207. Its 558,400 population value is 0.46 times the 1,211,849 median for the country cohort and 0.62 times the 902,588 regional median. Nasiriyah sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Iraq entries. Nasiriyah'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.
Nasiriyah's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Basrah at 157.809 km with 1,326,564 recorded people; Najaf at 210.664 km with 482,576 recorded people; Ahvaz at 232.672 km with 841,145 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 74.863 km. Compared with Basrah, Nasiriyah's recorded population is 0.42 times as large. Against Nasiriyah, Basrah follows Basrah District → Basra → Iraq in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iraq cohort, uses the shared Asia/Baghdad identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Nasiriyah's. Against Nasiriyah, Najaf follows Kufa → Najaf → Iraq in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iraq cohort, uses the shared Asia/Baghdad identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Nasiriyah's. Against Nasiriyah, Ahvaz follows Khuzestan → Iran in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Iran cohort rather than Iraq, uses Asia/Tehran instead of Asia/Baghdad, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Nasiriyah's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 896 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nasiriyah'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 98854, the coordinate pair 31.0580 / 46.2573, country rank 10 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 99532 at 157.809 km bind Nasiriyah to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Nasiriyah's reference point is 31.0580° north and 46.2573° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Baghdad is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Nasiriyah's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Nasiriyah's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nasiriyah's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nasiriyah, 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
Nasiriyah's closest other entries in this atlas are Basrah (157.809 km), Najaf (210.664 km), Ahvaz (232.672 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-02-14; 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.