1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Tunisia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Tunis—693,210, Africa/Tunis, 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 of Tunisia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tunis is GeoNames ID 2464470. Its recorded administrative path is Tunis Governorate → Tunisia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Tunis 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 2026-02-23; 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, Tunis ranks 794 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Tunisia entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 166. Its 693,210 population value is 1.00 times the 693,210 median for the country cohort and 0.77 times the 902,588 regional median. Tunis is rank 1 among the 1 selected Tunisia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Tunis'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.
Tunis's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Palermo at 316.942 km with 648,260 recorded people; Tripoli at 516.772 km with 1,302,947 recorded people; Naples at 572.019 km with 909,048 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 255.077 km. Compared with Palermo, Tunis's recorded population is 1.07 times as large. Against Tunis, 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 Tunisia, uses Europe/Rome instead of Africa/Tunis, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Tunis's. Against Tunis, Tripoli follows Tripoli → Libya in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Libya cohort rather than Tunisia, uses Africa/Tripoli instead of Africa/Tunis, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Tunis's. Against Tunis, Naples follows Napoli → Campania → Italy in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Italy cohort rather than Tunisia, uses Europe/Rome instead of Africa/Tunis, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Tunis's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,120 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tunis'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 2464470, the coordinate pair 36.8190 / 10.1658, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2523920 at 316.942 km bind Tunis to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tunis's reference point is 36.8190° north and 10.1658° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Tunis is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Tunis's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Tunis's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tunis's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tunis, 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
Tunis's closest other entries in this atlas are Palermo (316.942 km), Tripoli (516.772 km), Naples (572.019 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-02-23; 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.