1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Natal—896,708, America/Fortaleza, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Natal is GeoNames ID 3394023. Its recorded administrative path is Natal → Rio Grande do Norte → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Natal 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 2026-04-13; 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, Natal ranks 623 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 18; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 88. Its 896,708 population value is 1.18 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 1.10 times the 816,326 regional median. Natal sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. Natal's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Natal's three nearest other atlas coordinates are João Pessoa at 151.685 km with 817,511 recorded people; Recife at 253.778 km with 1,653,461 recorded people; Jaboatão dos Guararapes at 258.62 km with 644,037 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 106.935 km. Compared with João Pessoa, Natal's recorded population is 1.10 times as large. Against Natal, João Pessoa follows Joao Pessoa → Paraiba → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Fortaleza identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Natal's. Against Natal, Recife follows Recife → Pernambuco → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Recife instead of America/Fortaleza, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Natal's. Against Natal, Jaboatão dos Guararapes follows Jaboatao Dos Guararapes → Pernambuco → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Recife instead of America/Fortaleza, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Natal's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 883 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Natal'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 3394023, the coordinate pair 5.7950 / 35.2094, country rank 18 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3397277 at 151.685 km bind Natal to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Natal's reference point is 5.7950° south and 35.2094° west. The IANA identifier America/Fortaleza is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Natal's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Natal's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Natal's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Natal, 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
Natal's closest other entries in this atlas are João Pessoa (151.685 km), Recife (253.778 km), Jaboatão dos Guararapes (258.62 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.