1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Saudi Arabia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Ta'if—688,693, 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: city in Saudi Arabia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ta'if is GeoNames ID 107968. Its recorded administrative path is Mecca Region → Saudi Arabia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Ta’if 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 2022-10-23; 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, Ta'if ranks 799 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Saudi Arabia entries it ranks 8; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 167. Its 688,693 population value is 0.73 times the 946,697 median for the country cohort and 0.76 times the 902,588 regional median. Ta'if sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Saudi Arabia entries. Ta'if'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.
Ta'if's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Makkah at 63.549 km with 1,578,722 recorded people; Jeddah at 129.64 km with 4,697,000 recorded people; Madinah at 364.995 km with 1,300,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 301.446 km. Compared with Makkah, Ta'if's recorded population is 0.44 times as large. Against Ta'if, Makkah follows Mecca Region → Saudi Arabia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Saudi Arabia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Riyadh identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Ta'if's. Against Ta'if, Jeddah follows Mecca Region → Saudi Arabia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Saudi Arabia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Riyadh identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Ta'if's. Against Ta'if, Madinah follows Medina Region → Saudi Arabia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Saudi Arabia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Riyadh identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Ta'if's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 519 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ta'if's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 107968, the coordinate pair 21.2703 / 40.4158, country rank 8 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 104515 at 63.549 km bind Ta'if to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ta'if's reference point is 21.2703° north and 40.4158° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Riyadh is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Ta'if's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Ta'if's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ta'if's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ta'if, 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
Ta'if's closest other entries in this atlas are Makkah (63.549 km), Jeddah (129.64 km), Madinah (364.995 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-10-23; 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.