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 Tanta—576,648, 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: city in Egypt.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tanta is GeoNames ID 347497. Its recorded administrative path is Gharbia → Egypt, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Tanta 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, Tanta ranks 966 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Egypt entries it ranks 9; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 198. Its 576,648 population value is 0.87 times the 660,747 median for the country cohort and 0.64 times the 902,588 regional median. Tanta sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Egypt entries. Tanta'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.
Tanta's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Al Maḩallah al Kubrá at 25.655 km with 592,573 recorded people; Al Mansurah at 45.448 km with 621,953 recorded people; Al Khuşūş at 76.775 km with 488,904 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 51.12 km. Compared with Al Maḩallah al Kubrá, Tanta's recorded population is 0.97 times as large. Against Tanta, Al Maḩallah al Kubrá follows Gharbia → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Tanta's. Against Tanta, Al Mansurah follows Dakahlia → 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 first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Tanta's. Against Tanta, Al Khuşūş follows Qalyubia → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher 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 Tanta's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 300 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tanta's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter 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 347497, the coordinate pair 30.7885 / 31.0019, country rank 9 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 360829 at 25.655 km bind Tanta to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tanta's reference point is 30.7885° north and 31.0019° 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. Tanta's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Tanta's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tanta's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tanta, 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
Tanta's closest other entries in this atlas are Al Maḩallah al Kubrá (25.655 km), Al Mansurah (45.448 km), Al Khuşūş (76.775 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.