1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Morocco
Compare this sourced profile of Rabat, Morocco 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 Rabat—1,655,753, Africa/Casablanca, 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 city of Morocco.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Rabat is GeoNames ID 2538475. Its recorded administrative path is Rabat → Rabat-Sale-Kenitra → Morocco, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Rabat 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 2019-09-05; 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, Rabat ranks 271 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected Morocco entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 60. Its 1,655,753 population value is 1.66 times the 995,871 median for the country cohort and 1.83 times the 902,588 regional median. Rabat is rank 2 among the 9 selected Morocco entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Rabat's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Rabat's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Salé at 5.432 km with 972,299 recorded people; Casablanca at 86.09 km with 3,665,954 recorded people; Meknes at 119.293 km with 568,295 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 113.861 km. Compared with Salé, Rabat's recorded population is 1.70 times as large. Against Rabat, Salé follows Sale → Rabat-Sale-Kenitra → Morocco in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Rabat's. Against Rabat, Casablanca follows Casablanca → Casablanca-Settat → Morocco in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Rabat's. Against Rabat, Meknes follows Meknes → Fes-Meknes → Morocco in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Rabat's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 61 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Rabat's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. 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 2538475, the coordinate pair 34.0133 / 6.8326, country rank 2 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 2537763 at 5.432 km bind Rabat to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Rabat's reference point is 34.0133° north and 6.8326° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Casablanca is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Rabat's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Rabat's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Rabat's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Rabat, 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
Rabat's closest other entries in this atlas are Salé (5.432 km), Casablanca (86.09 km), Meknes (119.293 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2019-09-05; 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.