1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Belgium
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Antwerp—529,247, Europe/Brussels, 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: town in Antwerp municipality, Belgium.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Antwerp is GeoNames ID 2803138. Its recorded administrative path is Provincie Antwerpen → Flanders → Belgium, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Antwerp 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 2026-06-08; 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, Antwerp ranks 1,067 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Belgium entries it ranks 2; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 102. Its 529,247 population value is 0.68 times the 774,135 median for the country cohort and 0.80 times the 664,046 regional median. Antwerp is rank 2 among the 2 selected Belgium entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Antwerp'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.
Antwerp's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Brussels at 41.302 km with 1,019,022 recorded people; Rotterdam at 78.252 km with 868,135 recorded people; Amsterdam at 132.611 km with 741,636 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 91.309 km. Compared with Brussels, Antwerp's recorded population is 0.52 times as large. Against Antwerp, Brussels follows Bruxelles-Capitale → Brussels Capital → Belgium in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Belgium cohort, uses the shared Europe/Brussels identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Antwerp's. Against Antwerp, Rotterdam follows Rotterdam → South Holland → Netherlands in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Netherlands cohort rather than Belgium, uses Europe/Amsterdam instead of Europe/Brussels, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Antwerp's. Against Antwerp, Amsterdam follows Gemeente Amsterdam → North Holland → Netherlands in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Netherlands cohort rather than Belgium, uses Europe/Amsterdam instead of Europe/Brussels, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Antwerp's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 365 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Antwerp'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 2803138, the coordinate pair 51.2205 / 4.4003, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2800866 at 41.302 km bind Antwerp to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Antwerp's reference point is 51.2205° north and 4.4003° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Brussels is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Antwerp's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Antwerp's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Antwerp's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Antwerp, 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
Antwerp's closest other entries in this atlas are Brussels (41.302 km), Rotterdam (78.252 km), Amsterdam (132.611 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-08; 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.