Source identity and administrative path
The source row behind Ribeirão Preto is GeoNames ID 3451328. Its recorded administrative path is Ribeirao Preto → Sao Paulo → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Ribeirão Preto 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 2026-07-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Population position inside fixed cohorts
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Ribeirão Preto ranks 787 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 28; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 120. Its 698,642 population value is 0.92 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.86 times the 816,326 regional median. Ribeirão Preto sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. Ribeirão Preto'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.
Nearest-reference pattern
Ribeirão Preto's three nearest other atlas coordinates are São José do Rio Preto at 167.682 km with 480,393 recorded people; Campinas at 207.095 km with 1,031,554 recorded people; Uberlândia at 255.868 km with 754,954 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 88.186 km. Compared with São José do Rio Preto, Ribeirão Preto's recorded population is 1.45 times as large. Against Ribeirão Preto, São José do Rio Preto follows Sao Jose Do Rio Preto → Sao Paulo → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Ribeirão Preto's. Against Ribeirão Preto, Campinas follows Campinas → Sao Paulo → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ribeirão Preto's. Against Ribeirão Preto, Uberlândia follows Uberlandia → Minas Gerais → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ribeirão Preto's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 921 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ribeirão Preto'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 3451328, the coordinate pair 21.1775 / 47.8103, country rank 28 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3448639 at 167.682 km bind Ribeirão Preto to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts
Ribeirão Preto's reference point is 21.1775° south and 47.8103° west. The IANA identifier America/Sao_Paulo is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Ribeirão Preto's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ribeirão Preto's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ribeirão Preto's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ribeirão Preto, 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.
- Record keys
- Ribeirão Preto · GeoNames 3451328 · Q32142356
- Name scope
- Ribeirão Preto · 1 atlas row share this source label · qualifier not required
- Administrative chain
- Ribeirao Preto · Sao Paulo · Brazil
- Coordinate signature
- 21.1775° S · 47.8103° W
- Population snapshot
- 698,642 · atlas rank 787 of 1,206
- Country comparison
- Brazil rank 28 of 48 · median 758,563 · ratio 0.92×
- Regional comparison
- the Americas rank 120 of 198 · median 816,326 · ratio 0.86×
- Time-zone cohort
- America/Sao_Paulo · 30 of 1,206 atlas rows
- Place-class cohort
- PPLA2 second-order administrative seat · 341 of 1,206 rows
- Elevation field
- Ribeirão Preto · missing in GeoNames
- Nearest reference
- São José do Rio Preto · 167.682 km · population 480,393 · atlas rank 1,195
- Second reference
- Campinas · 207.095 km · population 1,031,554 · atlas rank 523
- Third reference
- Uberlândia · 255.868 km · population 754,954 · atlas rank 729
- Neighbour geometry
- Ribeirão Preto · nearest-distance rank 921 of 1,206 · three-reference spread 88.186 km
- Source dates
- Ribeirão Preto row updated 2026-07-13 · atlas dataset checked 2026-08-04