1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Compare this sourced profile of Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina 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 Sarajevo—696,731, Europe/Sarajevo, 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sarajevo is GeoNames ID 3191281. Its recorded administrative path is Canton of Sarajevo → Federation of B&H → Bosnia & Herzegovina, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Sarajevo 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 2019-09-05; 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, Sarajevo ranks 789 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Bosnia & Herzegovina entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 59. Its 696,731 population value is 1.00 times the 696,731 median for the country cohort and 1.05 times the 664,046 regional median. Sarajevo is rank 1 among the 1 selected Bosnia & Herzegovina entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Sarajevo'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.
Sarajevo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Belgrade at 198.537 km with 1,273,651 recorded people; Pristina at 262.448 km with 550,000 recorded people; Zagreb at 287.998 km with 663,592 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 89.461 km. Compared with Belgrade, Sarajevo's recorded population is 0.55 times as large. Against Sarajevo, Belgrade follows Belgrade → Central Serbia → Serbia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Serbia cohort rather than Bosnia & Herzegovina, uses Europe/Belgrade instead of Europe/Sarajevo, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Sarajevo's. Against Sarajevo, Pristina follows Komuna e Prishtines → Pristina → Kosovo in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Kosovo cohort rather than Bosnia & Herzegovina, uses Europe/Belgrade instead of Europe/Sarajevo, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Sarajevo's. Against Sarajevo, Zagreb follows Zagreb → Croatia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Croatia cohort rather than Bosnia & Herzegovina, uses Europe/Zagreb instead of Europe/Sarajevo, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Sarajevo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 990 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sarajevo'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 3191281, the coordinate pair 43.8486 / 18.3564, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 792680 at 198.537 km bind Sarajevo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sarajevo's reference point is 43.8486° north and 18.3564° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Sarajevo is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Sarajevo's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sarajevo's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sarajevo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sarajevo, 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
Sarajevo's closest other entries in this atlas are Belgrade (198.537 km), Pristina (262.448 km), Zagreb (287.998 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2019-09-05; 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.