1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Netherlands
Compare this sourced profile of Amsterdam, Netherlands 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 Amsterdam—741,636, Europe/Amsterdam, 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 and most populous city of the Netherlands.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Amsterdam is GeoNames ID 2759794. Its recorded administrative path is Gemeente Amsterdam → North Holland → Netherlands, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Amsterdam 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, Amsterdam ranks 741 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Netherlands entries it ranks 2; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 55. Its 741,636 population value is 0.92 times the 804,886 median for the country cohort and 1.12 times the 664,046 regional median. Amsterdam is rank 2 among the 2 selected Netherlands entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Amsterdam'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.
Amsterdam's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Rotterdam at 57.492 km with 868,135 recorded people; Antwerp at 132.611 km with 529,247 recorded people; Duisburg at 165.873 km with 504,358 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 108.381 km. Compared with Rotterdam, Amsterdam's recorded population is 0.85 times as large. Against Amsterdam, Rotterdam follows Rotterdam → South Holland → Netherlands in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Netherlands cohort, uses the shared Europe/Amsterdam identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Amsterdam's. Against Amsterdam, Antwerp follows Provincie Antwerpen → Flanders → Belgium in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Belgium cohort rather than Netherlands, uses Europe/Brussels instead of Europe/Amsterdam, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Amsterdam's. Against Amsterdam, Duisburg follows Duesseldorf District → North Rhine-Westphalia → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Germany cohort rather than Netherlands, uses Europe/Berlin instead of Europe/Amsterdam, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Amsterdam's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 487 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Amsterdam's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 2759794, the coordinate pair 52.3740 / 4.8897, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2747891 at 57.492 km bind Amsterdam to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Amsterdam's reference point is 52.3740° north and 4.8897° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Amsterdam is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Amsterdam's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Amsterdam's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Amsterdam's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Amsterdam, 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
Amsterdam's closest other entries in this atlas are Rotterdam (57.492 km), Antwerp (132.611 km), Duisburg (165.873 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.