1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Saudi Arabia
Compare this sourced profile of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia 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 Tabuk—667,000, Asia/Riyadh, 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: place in Tabuk province, Saudi Arabia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tabuk is GeoNames ID 101628. Its recorded administrative path is Tabuk Region → Saudi Arabia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Tabuk 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 2026-04-14; 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, Tabuk ranks 827 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Saudi Arabia entries it ranks 9; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 172. Its 667,000 population value is 0.70 times the 946,697 median for the country cohort and 0.74 times the 902,588 regional median. Tabuk sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Saudi Arabia entries. Tabuk'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.
Tabuk's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jerusalem at 396.672 km with 971,800 recorded people; Amman at 399.902 km with 1,275,857 recorded people; Zarqa at 411.045 km with 792,665 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 14.373 km. Compared with Jerusalem, Tabuk's recorded population is 0.69 times as large. Against Tabuk, Jerusalem follows Jerusalem → Israel in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Israel cohort rather than Saudi Arabia, uses Asia/Jerusalem instead of Asia/Riyadh, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Tabuk's. Against Tabuk, Amman follows Amman → Jordan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Jordan cohort rather than Saudi Arabia, uses Asia/Amman instead of Asia/Riyadh, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Tabuk's. Against Tabuk, Zarqa follows Zarqa → Jordan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Jordan cohort rather than Saudi Arabia, uses Asia/Amman instead of Asia/Riyadh, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Tabuk's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,164 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tabuk'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 101628, the coordinate pair 28.3998 / 36.5715, country rank 9 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 281184 at 396.672 km bind Tabuk to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tabuk's reference point is 28.3998° north and 36.5715° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Riyadh is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Tabuk's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Tabuk's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tabuk's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tabuk, 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
Tabuk's closest other entries in this atlas are Jerusalem (396.672 km), Amman (399.902 km), Zarqa (411.045 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.