1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Egypt
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Shobra Elkhema—1,240,289, Africa/Cairo, 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: Egyptian city north of Cairo.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Shobra Elkhema is GeoNames ID 349076. Its recorded administrative path is Qalyubia → Egypt, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Shubrā al Khaymah 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 2023-11-29; 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, Shobra Elkhema ranks 420 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Egypt entries it ranks 4; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 87. Its 1,240,289 population value is 1.88 times the 660,747 median for the country cohort and 1.37 times the 902,588 regional median. Shobra Elkhema sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Egypt population cohort. Shobra Elkhema'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.
Shobra Elkhema's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Al Khuşūş at 6.929 km with 488,904 recorded people; Cairo at 6.948 km with 9,606,916 recorded people; Giza at 13.48 km with 4,367,343 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 6.551 km. Compared with Al Khuşūş, Shobra Elkhema's recorded population is 2.54 times as large. Against Shobra Elkhema, Al Khuşūş follows Qalyubia → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Shobra Elkhema's. Against Shobra Elkhema, Cairo follows Cairo → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shobra Elkhema's. Against Shobra Elkhema, Giza follows Giza → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shobra Elkhema's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 98 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shobra Elkhema's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. 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 349076, the coordinate pair 30.1251 / 31.2505, country rank 4 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 360890 at 6.929 km bind Shobra Elkhema to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shobra Elkhema's reference point is 30.1251° north and 31.2505° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Cairo is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Shobra Elkhema's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Shobra Elkhema's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shobra Elkhema's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shobra Elkhema, 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
Shobra Elkhema's closest other entries in this atlas are Al Khuşūş (6.929 km), Cairo (6.948 km), Giza (13.48 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-11-29; 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.