1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Philippines
Compare this sourced profile of Zamboanga, Philippines 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 Zamboanga—1,018,849, Asia/Manila, 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 Zamboanga is GeoNames ID 1679432. Its recorded administrative path is Province of Zamboanga del Sur → Zamboanga Peninsula → Philippines, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Zamboanga 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 2025-09-24; 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, Zamboanga ranks 538 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected Philippines entries it ranks 8; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 314. Its 1,018,849 population value is 1.28 times the 797,334 median for the country cohort and 1.01 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Zamboanga sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Philippines population cohort. Zamboanga'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.
Zamboanga's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Budta at 263.112 km with 1,273,715 recorded people; Malingao at 266.441 km with 1,121,974 recorded people; Cagayan de Oro at 333.099 km with 741,617 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 69.987 km. Compared with Budta, Zamboanga's recorded population is 0.80 times as large. Against Zamboanga, Budta follows Maguindanao del Norte → Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao → Philippines in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Zamboanga's. Against Zamboanga, Malingao follows Cotabato → Soccsksargen → Philippines in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Zamboanga's. Against Zamboanga, Cagayan de Oro follows Province of Misamis Oriental → Northern Mindanao → Philippines in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Zamboanga's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,083 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Zamboanga'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 1679432, the coordinate pair 6.9103 / 122.0739, country rank 8 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1723510 at 263.112 km bind Zamboanga to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Zamboanga's reference point is 6.9103° north and 122.0739° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Manila is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Zamboanga's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Zamboanga's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Zamboanga's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Zamboanga, 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
Zamboanga's closest other entries in this atlas are Budta (263.112 km), Malingao (266.441 km), Cagayan de Oro (333.099 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-09-24; 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.