1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Honduras
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for San Pedro Sula—801,259, America/Tegucigalpa, 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 Honduras.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind San Pedro Sula is GeoNames ID 3601782. Its recorded administrative path is San Pedro Sula → Cortes Department → Honduras, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. San Pedro Sula 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 2025-05-15; 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, San Pedro Sula ranks 693 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Honduras entries it ranks 2; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 103. Its 801,259 population value is 0.97 times the 826,054 median for the country cohort and 0.98 times the 816,326 regional median. San Pedro Sula is rank 2 among the 2 selected Honduras entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. San Pedro Sula'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.
San Pedro Sula's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tegucigalpa at 181.183 km with 850,848 recorded people; San Salvador at 237.512 km with 525,990 recorded people; Guatemala City at 283.862 km with 994,938 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 102.679 km. Compared with Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula's recorded population is 0.94 times as large. Against San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa follows Distrito Central → Francisco Morazan Department → Honduras in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Honduras cohort, uses the shared America/Tegucigalpa identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above San Pedro Sula's. Against San Pedro Sula, San Salvador follows San Salvador Department → El Salvador in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected El Salvador cohort rather than Honduras, uses America/El_Salvador instead of America/Tegucigalpa, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below San Pedro Sula's. Against San Pedro Sula, Guatemala City follows Municipio de Guatemala → Guatemala in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Guatemala cohort rather than Honduras, uses America/Guatemala instead of America/Tegucigalpa, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above San Pedro Sula's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 952 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. San Pedro Sula'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 3601782, the coordinate pair 15.5059 / 88.0259, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 3600949 at 181.183 km bind San Pedro Sula to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
San Pedro Sula's reference point is 15.5059° north and 88.0259° west. The IANA identifier America/Tegucigalpa is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. San Pedro Sula's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. San Pedro Sula's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. San Pedro Sula's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for San Pedro Sula, 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
San Pedro Sula's closest other entries in this atlas are Tegucigalpa (181.183 km), San Salvador (237.512 km), Guatemala City (283.862 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-15; 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.