1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Saudi Arabia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Riyadh—4,205,961, Asia/Riyadh, 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 and largest city of Saudi Arabia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Riyadh is GeoNames ID 108410. Its recorded administrative path is Riyadh Region → Saudi Arabia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Riyadh 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 2024-03-26; 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, Riyadh ranks 80 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Saudi Arabia entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 17. Its 4,205,961 population value is 4.44 times the 946,697 median for the country cohort and 4.66 times the 902,588 regional median. Riyadh falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Saudi Arabia population cohort. Riyadh'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.
Riyadh's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Buraydah at 330.404 km with 745,353 recorded people; Dammam at 390.839 km with 1,252,523 recorded people; Al Ahmadi at 506.392 km with 637,411 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 175.988 km. Compared with Buraydah, Riyadh's recorded population is 5.64 times as large. Against Riyadh, Buraydah follows Al-Qassim Region → Saudi Arabia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Saudi Arabia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Riyadh identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Riyadh's. Against Riyadh, Dammam follows Eastern Province → Saudi Arabia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Saudi Arabia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Riyadh identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Riyadh's. Against Riyadh, Al Ahmadi follows Al Ahmadi → Kuwait in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Kuwait cohort rather than Saudi Arabia, uses Asia/Kuwait instead of Asia/Riyadh, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Riyadh's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,133 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Riyadh'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 108410, the coordinate pair 24.6877 / 46.7219, country rank 2 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 107304 at 330.404 km bind Riyadh to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Riyadh's reference point is 24.6877° north and 46.7219° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Riyadh is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Riyadh's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Riyadh's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Riyadh's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Riyadh, 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
Riyadh's closest other entries in this atlas are Buraydah (330.404 km), Dammam (390.839 km), Al Ahmadi (506.392 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2024-03-26; 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.