1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of Recife, Brazil 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 Recife—1,653,461, America/Recife, 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: human settlement in Brazil.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Recife is GeoNames ID 3390760. Its recorded administrative path is Recife → Pernambuco → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Recife 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, Recife ranks 272 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 9; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 35. Its 1,653,461 population value is 2.18 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 2.03 times the 816,326 regional median. Recife falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. Recife's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Recife's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jaboatão dos Guararapes at 16.101 km with 644,037 recorded people; João Pessoa at 104.419 km with 817,511 recorded people; Maceió at 202.32 km with 1,031,597 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 186.219 km. Compared with Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Recife's recorded population is 2.57 times as large. Against Recife, Jaboatão dos Guararapes follows Jaboatao Dos Guararapes → Pernambuco → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Recife identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Recife's. Against Recife, João Pessoa follows Joao Pessoa → Paraiba → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Fortaleza instead of America/Recife, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Recife's. Against Recife, Maceió follows Maceio → Alagoas → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Maceio instead of America/Recife, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Recife's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 220 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Recife's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter 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 3390760, the coordinate pair 8.0539 / 34.8811, country rank 9 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 6317344 at 16.101 km bind Recife to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Recife's reference point is 8.0539° south and 34.8811° west. The IANA identifier America/Recife is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Recife's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Recife's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Recife's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Recife, 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
Recife's closest other entries in this atlas are Jaboatão dos Guararapes (16.101 km), João Pessoa (104.419 km), Maceió (202.32 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.