1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Egypt
Compare this sourced profile of Suez, Egypt 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 Suez—699,541, 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: seaport city in Suez Governorate, Egypt.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Suez is GeoNames ID 359796. Its recorded administrative path is Suez → Egypt, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Suez 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 2022-04-18; 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, Suez ranks 785 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Egypt entries it ranks 6; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 163. Its 699,541 population value is 1.06 times the 660,747 median for the country cohort and 0.78 times the 902,588 regional median. Suez sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Egypt population cohort. Suez'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.
Suez's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Al Khuşūş at 118.258 km with 488,904 recorded people; Cairo at 123.307 km with 9,606,916 recorded people; Shobra Elkhema at 123.938 km with 1,240,289 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 5.68 km. Compared with Al Khuşūş, Suez's recorded population is 1.43 times as large. Against Suez, Al Khuşūş follows Qalyubia → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Suez's. Against Suez, Cairo follows Cairo → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Suez's. Against Suez, Shobra Elkhema follows Qalyubia → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Suez's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 767 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Suez'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 359796, the coordinate pair 29.9737 / 32.5263, country rank 6 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 360890 at 118.258 km bind Suez to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Suez's reference point is 29.9737° north and 32.5263° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Cairo is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Suez's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Suez's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Suez's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Suez, 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
Suez's closest other entries in this atlas are Al Khuşūş (118.258 km), Cairo (123.307 km), Shobra Elkhema (123.938 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-04-18; 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.