1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Yemen
Compare this sourced profile of Ta'izz, Yemen 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 Ta'izz—940,600, Asia/Aden, 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 the Yemeni Highlands.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ta'izz is GeoNames ID 70225. Its recorded administrative path is Salh → Ta'izz → Yemen, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Taiz 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, Ta'izz ranks 591 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Yemen entries it ranks 3; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 118. Its 940,600 population value is 1.10 times the 856,057 median for the country cohort and 1.04 times the 902,588 regional median. Ta'izz is rank 3 among the 6 selected Yemen entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Ta'izz'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.
Ta'izz's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ibb at 46.486 km with 771,514 recorded people; Aden at 141.598 km with 1,079,670 recorded people; Al Hudaydah at 177.67 km with 734,699 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 131.184 km. Compared with Ibb, Ta'izz's recorded population is 1.22 times as large. Against Ta'izz, Ibb follows Al Mashannah → Ibb Governorate → Yemen in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Ta'izz's. Against Ta'izz, Aden follows Craiter → Aden → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Ta'izz's. Against Ta'izz, Al Hudaydah follows Al Hawak → Al Hudaydah → Yemen in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Yemen cohort, uses the shared Asia/Aden identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Ta'izz's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 405 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ta'izz'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 70225, the coordinate pair 13.5795 / 44.0209, country rank 3 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 74477 at 46.486 km bind Ta'izz to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ta'izz's reference point is 13.5795° north and 44.0209° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Aden is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Ta'izz's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ta'izz's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ta'izz's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Ta'izz at 1,400 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Ta'izz's closest other entries in this atlas are Ibb (46.486 km), Aden (141.598 km), Al Hudaydah (177.67 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
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.