1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Salvador—2,711,840, America/Bahia, 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 Salvador is GeoNames ID 3450554. Its recorded administrative path is Salvador → Bahia → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Salvador 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, Salvador ranks 141 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 4; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 16. Its 2,711,840 population value is 3.57 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 3.32 times the 816,326 regional median. Salvador falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. Salvador'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.
Salvador's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Feira de Santana at 94.229 km with 616,272 recorded people; Aracaju at 276.652 km with 664,908 recorded people; Maceió at 475.072 km with 1,031,597 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 380.843 km. Compared with Feira de Santana, Salvador's recorded population is 4.40 times as large. Against Salvador, Feira de Santana follows Feira de Santana → Bahia → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Bahia identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Salvador's. Against Salvador, Aracaju follows Aracaju → Sergipe → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Maceio instead of America/Bahia, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Salvador's. Against Salvador, Maceió follows Maceio → Alagoas → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses America/Maceio instead of America/Bahia, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Salvador's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 670 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Salvador'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 3450554, the coordinate pair 12.9756 / 38.4910, country rank 4 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3463478 at 94.229 km bind Salvador to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Salvador's reference point is 12.9756° south and 38.4910° west. The IANA identifier America/Bahia is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Salvador's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Salvador's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Salvador's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Salvador, 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
Salvador's closest other entries in this atlas are Feira de Santana (94.229 km), Aracaju (276.652 km), Maceió (475.072 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.