1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Sudan
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Nyala—565,734, Africa/Khartoum, 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 state of South Darfur in the south-west of Sudan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Nyala is GeoNames ID 369004. Its recorded administrative path is Southern Darfur → Sudan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Nyala 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, Nyala ranks 984 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected Sudan entries it ranks 4; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 203. Its 565,734 population value is 0.56 times the 1,012,211 median for the country cohort and 0.63 times the 902,588 regional median. Nyala is rank 4 among the 5 selected Sudan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Nyala'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.
Nyala's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Omdurman at 912.289 km with 1,849,659 recorded people; Khartoum at 913.306 km with 1,974,647 recorded people; Khartoum North at 918.028 km with 1,012,211 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 5.739 km. Compared with Omdurman, Nyala's recorded population is 0.31 times as large. Against Nyala, Omdurman follows Khartoum → Sudan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Sudan cohort, uses the shared Africa/Khartoum identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Nyala's. Against Nyala, Khartoum follows Khartoum → Sudan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Sudan cohort, uses the shared Africa/Khartoum identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Nyala's. Against Nyala, Khartoum North follows Khartoum → Sudan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Sudan cohort, uses the shared Africa/Khartoum identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Nyala's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,201 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nyala'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 369004, the coordinate pair 12.0489 / 24.8807, country rank 4 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 365137 at 912.289 km bind Nyala to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Nyala's reference point is 12.0489° north and 24.8807° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Khartoum is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Nyala's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Nyala's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nyala's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nyala, 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
Nyala's closest other entries in this atlas are Omdurman (912.289 km), Khartoum (913.306 km), Khartoum North (918.028 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.