1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Tuxtla—604,147, America/Merida, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tuxtla is GeoNames ID 3515001. Its recorded administrative path is Tuxtla Gutierrez → Chiapas → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Tuxtla 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, Tuxtla ranks 925 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 31; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 151. Its 604,147 population value is 0.75 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 0.74 times the 816,326 regional median. Tuxtla sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Mexico entries. Tuxtla'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.
Tuxtla's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Guatemala City at 364.415 km with 994,938 recorded people; Villa Nueva at 367.151 km with 618,397 recorded people; San Salvador at 541.953 km with 525,990 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 177.538 km. Compared with Guatemala City, Tuxtla's recorded population is 0.61 times as large. Against Tuxtla, Guatemala City follows Municipio de Guatemala → Guatemala in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Guatemala cohort rather than Mexico, uses America/Guatemala instead of America/Merida, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Tuxtla's. Against Tuxtla, Villa Nueva follows Municipio de Villa Nueva → Guatemala in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Guatemala cohort rather than Mexico, uses America/Guatemala instead of America/Merida, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Tuxtla's. Against Tuxtla, San Salvador follows San Salvador Department → El Salvador in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected El Salvador cohort rather than Mexico, uses America/El_Salvador instead of America/Merida, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Tuxtla's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,150 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tuxtla'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 3515001, the coordinate pair 16.7536 / 93.1158, country rank 31 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 3598132 at 364.415 km bind Tuxtla to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tuxtla's reference point is 16.7536° north and 93.1158° west. The IANA identifier America/Merida is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Tuxtla's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Tuxtla's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tuxtla's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tuxtla, 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
Tuxtla's closest other entries in this atlas are Guatemala City (364.415 km), Villa Nueva (367.151 km), San Salvador (541.953 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.