1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Cuba
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Santiago de Cuba—555,865, America/Havana, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Santiago de Cuba is GeoNames ID 3536729. Its recorded administrative path is Municipio de Santiago de Cuba → Santiago de Cuba Province → Cuba, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Santiago de Cuba 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, Santiago de Cuba ranks 1,000 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Cuba entries it ranks 2; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 163. Its 555,865 population value is 0.41 times the 1,359,845 median for the country cohort and 0.68 times the 816,326 regional median. Santiago de Cuba is rank 2 among the 2 selected Cuba entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Santiago de Cuba's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Santiago de Cuba's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kingston at 247.35 km with 937,700 recorded people; Carrefour at 395.477 km with 511,345 recorded people; Port-au-Prince at 400.843 km with 1,234,742 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 153.493 km. Compared with Kingston, Santiago de Cuba's recorded population is 0.59 times as large. Against Santiago de Cuba, Kingston follows Kingston → Jamaica in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Jamaica cohort rather than Cuba, uses America/Jamaica instead of America/Havana, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Santiago de Cuba's. Against Santiago de Cuba, Carrefour follows Arrondissement de Port-au-Prince → Ouest → Haiti in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Haiti cohort rather than Cuba, uses America/Port-au-Prince instead of America/Havana, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Santiago de Cuba's. Against Santiago de Cuba, Port-au-Prince follows Arrondissement de Port-au-Prince → Ouest → Haiti in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Haiti cohort rather than Cuba, uses America/Port-au-Prince instead of America/Havana, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Santiago de Cuba's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,061 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Santiago de Cuba'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 3536729, the coordinate pair 20.0229 / 75.8217, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 3489854 at 247.35 km bind Santiago de Cuba to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Santiago de Cuba's reference point is 20.0229° north and 75.8217° west. The IANA identifier America/Havana is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Santiago de Cuba's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Santiago de Cuba's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Santiago de Cuba's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Santiago de Cuba, 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
Santiago de Cuba's closest other entries in this atlas are Kingston (247.35 km), Carrefour (395.477 km), Port-au-Prince (400.843 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.