1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iran
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Shiraz—1,249,942, Asia/Tehran, 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: city in Fars Province, Iran.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Shiraz is GeoNames ID 115019. Its recorded administrative path is Shahrestan-e Shiraz → Fars → Iran, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Shiraz 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 2024-07-22; 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, Shiraz ranks 413 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Iran entries it ranks 6; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 85. Its 1,249,942 population value is 1.49 times the 841,145 median for the country cohort and 1.38 times the 902,588 regional median. Shiraz sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Iran population cohort. Shiraz's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Shiraz's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Isfahan at 347.952 km with 1,547,164 recorded people; Ahvaz at 414.739 km with 841,145 recorded people; Dammam at 426 km with 1,252,523 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 78.048 km. Compared with Isfahan, Shiraz's recorded population is 0.81 times as large. Against Shiraz, Isfahan follows Isfahan → Iran in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iran cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tehran identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Shiraz's. Against Shiraz, Ahvaz follows Khuzestan → Iran in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iran cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tehran identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Shiraz's. Against Shiraz, Dammam follows Eastern Province → Saudi Arabia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Saudi Arabia cohort rather than Iran, uses Asia/Riyadh instead of Asia/Tehran, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Shiraz's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,142 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shiraz'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 115019, the coordinate pair 29.6103 / 52.5311, country rank 6 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 418863 at 347.952 km bind Shiraz to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shiraz's reference point is 29.6103° north and 52.5311° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tehran is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Shiraz's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shiraz's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shiraz's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shiraz, 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
Shiraz's closest other entries in this atlas are Isfahan (347.952 km), Ahvaz (414.739 km), Dammam (426 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-22; 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.