1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Yemen
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Sanaa—1,937,451, Asia/Aden, 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 city of Yemen.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sanaa is GeoNames ID 71137. Its recorded administrative path is Amanat Alasimah → Yemen, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Sanaa 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 2025-06-14; 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, Sanaa ranks 213 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Yemen entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 45. Its 1,937,451 population value is 2.26 times the 856,057 median for the country cohort and 2.15 times the 902,588 regional median. Sanaa is rank 1 among the 6 selected Yemen entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Sanaa'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.
Sanaa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Al Hudaydah at 147.986 km with 734,699 recorded people; Ibb at 154.342 km with 771,514 recorded people; Ta'izz at 198.379 km with 940,600 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 50.393 km. Compared with Al Hudaydah, Sanaa's recorded population is 2.64 times as large. Against Sanaa, Al Hudaydah follows Al Hawak → Al Hudaydah → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Sanaa's. Against Sanaa, Ibb follows Al Mashannah → Ibb Governorate → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Sanaa's. Against Sanaa, Ta'izz follows Salh → Ta'izz → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Sanaa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 872 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sanaa'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 71137, the coordinate pair 15.3545 / 44.2065, country rank 1 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 79415 at 147.986 km bind Sanaa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sanaa's reference point is 15.3545° north and 44.2065° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Aden is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Sanaa's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Sanaa's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sanaa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sanaa, 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
Sanaa's closest other entries in this atlas are Al Hudaydah (147.986 km), Ibb (154.342 km), Ta'izz (198.379 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-14; 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.