1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Morocco
Compare this sourced profile of Salé, 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 Salé—972,299, 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: city in Morocco.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Salé is GeoNames ID 2537763. Its recorded administrative path is Sale → Rabat-Sale-Kenitra → Morocco, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Salé 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 2024-01-18; 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, Salé ranks 572 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected Morocco entries it ranks 6; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 114. Its 972,299 population value is 0.98 times the 995,871 median for the country cohort and 1.08 times the 902,588 regional median. Salé is rank 6 among the 9 selected Morocco entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Salé'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.
Salé's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Rabat at 5.432 km with 1,655,753 recorded people; Casablanca at 91.162 km with 3,665,954 recorded people; Meknes at 116.733 km with 568,295 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 111.301 km. Compared with Rabat, Salé's recorded population is 0.59 times as large. Against Salé, Rabat follows Rabat → Rabat-Sale-Kenitra → 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 capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Salé's. Against Salé, 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 populated place. Its recorded population is above Salé's. Against Salé, 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Salé's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 61 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Salé'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 2537763, the coordinate pair 34.0531 / 6.7985, country rank 6 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 2538475 at 5.432 km bind Salé to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Salé's reference point is 34.0531° north and 6.7985° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Casablanca is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Salé's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Salé's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Salé's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Salé, 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
Salé's closest other entries in this atlas are Rabat (5.432 km), Casablanca (91.162 km), Meknes (116.733 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-18; 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.