1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Albuquerque—564,559, America/Denver, 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 and county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States and the largest city in the state.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Albuquerque is GeoNames ID 5454711. Its recorded administrative path is Bernalillo County → New Mexico → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Albuquerque 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 2026-01-13; 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, Albuquerque ranks 987 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 35; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 161. Its 564,559 population value is 0.72 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.69 times the 816,326 regional median. Albuquerque sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. Albuquerque'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.
Albuquerque's three nearest other atlas coordinates are El Paso at 370.122 km with 678,815 recorded people; Ciudad Juárez at 374.504 km with 1,512,450 recorded people; Tucson at 507.768 km with 542,629 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 137.646 km. Compared with El Paso, Albuquerque's recorded population is 0.83 times as large. Against Albuquerque, El Paso follows El Paso County → Texas → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Denver identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Albuquerque's. Against Albuquerque, Ciudad Juárez follows Juarez → Chihuahua → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Mexico cohort rather than United States, uses America/Ciudad_Juarez instead of America/Denver, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Albuquerque's. Against Albuquerque, Tucson follows Pima County → Arizona → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/Phoenix instead of America/Denver, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Albuquerque's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,157 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Albuquerque'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 5454711, the coordinate pair 35.0845 / 106.6511, country rank 35 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5520993 at 370.122 km bind Albuquerque to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Albuquerque's reference point is 35.0845° north and 106.6511° west. The IANA identifier America/Denver is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Albuquerque's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Albuquerque's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Albuquerque's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Albuquerque at 1,511 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Albuquerque's closest other entries in this atlas are El Paso (370.122 km), Ciudad Juárez (374.504 km), Tucson (507.768 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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