1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Congo - Brazzaville
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Pointe-Noire—1,032,000, Africa/Brazzaville, 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 the Republic of the Congo.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Pointe-Noire is GeoNames ID 2255414. Its recorded administrative path is Pointe-Noire → Congo - Brazzaville, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Pointe-Noire 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, Pointe-Noire ranks 521 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Congo - Brazzaville entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 108. Its 1,032,000 population value is 0.68 times the 1,507,000 median for the country cohort and 1.14 times the 902,588 regional median. Pointe-Noire is rank 2 among the 2 selected Congo - Brazzaville entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Pointe-Noire'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.
Pointe-Noire's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Cabinda at 94.774 km with 550,000 recorded people; Brazzaville at 383.282 km with 1,982,000 recorded people; Kinshasa at 385.655 km with 16,000,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 290.881 km. Compared with Cabinda, Pointe-Noire's recorded population is 1.88 times as large. Against Pointe-Noire, Cabinda follows Cabinda → Angola in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Angola cohort rather than Congo - Brazzaville, uses Africa/Luanda instead of Africa/Brazzaville, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Pointe-Noire's. Against Pointe-Noire, Brazzaville follows Brazzaville → Congo - Brazzaville in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Congo - Brazzaville cohort, uses the shared Africa/Brazzaville identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Pointe-Noire's. Against Pointe-Noire, Kinshasa follows Kinshasa → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort rather than Congo - Brazzaville, uses Africa/Kinshasa instead of Africa/Brazzaville, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Pointe-Noire's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 675 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Pointe-Noire'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 2255414, the coordinate pair 4.7761 / 11.8635, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2243271 at 94.774 km bind Pointe-Noire to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Pointe-Noire's reference point is 4.7761° south and 11.8635° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Brazzaville is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Pointe-Noire's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Pointe-Noire's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Pointe-Noire's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Pointe-Noire, 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
Pointe-Noire's closest other entries in this atlas are Cabinda (94.774 km), Brazzaville (383.282 km), Kinshasa (385.655 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.