1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Egypt
Compare this sourced profile of Port Said, Egypt before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Port Said—780,515, Africa/Cairo, 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 northeastern Egypt.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Port Said is GeoNames ID 358619. Its recorded administrative path is Port Said → Egypt, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Port Said 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 2026-02-23; 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, Port Said ranks 709 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Egypt entries it ranks 5; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 143. Its 780,515 population value is 1.18 times the 660,747 median for the country cohort and 0.86 times the 902,588 regional median. Port Said sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Egypt population cohort. Port Said'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.
Port Said's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Al Mansurah at 91.285 km with 621,953 recorded people; Al Maḩallah al Kubrá at 112.904 km with 592,573 recorded people; Tanta at 134.739 km with 576,648 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 43.454 km. Compared with Al Mansurah, Port Said's recorded population is 1.25 times as large. Against Port Said, Al Mansurah follows Dakahlia → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Port Said's. Against Port Said, Al Maḩallah al Kubrá follows Gharbia → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Port Said's. Against Port Said, Tanta follows Gharbia → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Port Said's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 657 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Port Said'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 358619, the coordinate pair 31.2653 / 32.3019, country rank 5 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 360761 at 91.285 km bind Port Said to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Port Said's reference point is 31.2653° north and 32.3019° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Cairo is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Port Said's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Port Said's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Port Said's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Port Said, 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
Port Said's closest other entries in this atlas are Al Mansurah (91.285 km), Al Maḩallah al Kubrá (112.904 km), Tanta (134.739 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-02-23; 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.