1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Libya
Compare this sourced profile of Tripoli, Libya 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 Tripoli—1,302,947, Africa/Tripoli, 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: capital city of Libya.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tripoli is GeoNames ID 2210247. Its recorded administrative path is Tripoli → Libya, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Tripoli 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 2026-07-08; 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, Tripoli ranks 387 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Libya entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 79. Its 1,302,947 population value is 1.26 times the 1,030,219 median for the country cohort and 1.44 times the 902,588 regional median. Tripoli is rank 1 among the 2 selected Libya entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Tripoli's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Tripoli's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tunis at 516.772 km with 693,210 recorded people; Palermo at 581.676 km with 648,260 recorded people; Benghazi at 650.893 km with 757,490 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 134.121 km. Compared with Tunis, Tripoli's recorded population is 1.88 times as large. Against Tripoli, Tunis follows Tunis Governorate → Tunisia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Tunisia cohort rather than Libya, uses Africa/Tunis instead of Africa/Tripoli, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Tripoli's. Against Tripoli, Palermo follows Palermo → Sicily → Italy in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Italy cohort rather than Libya, uses Europe/Rome instead of Africa/Tripoli, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Tripoli's. Against Tripoli, Benghazi follows Banghazi → Libya in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Libya cohort, uses the shared Africa/Tripoli identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Tripoli's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,177 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tripoli'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 2210247, the coordinate pair 32.8874 / 13.1873, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2464470 at 516.772 km bind Tripoli to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tripoli's reference point is 32.8874° north and 13.1873° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Tripoli is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Tripoli's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Tripoli's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tripoli's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tripoli, 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
Tripoli's closest other entries in this atlas are Tunis (516.772 km), Palermo (581.676 km), Benghazi (650.893 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-08; 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.