1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Greece
Compare this sourced profile of Athens, Greece 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 Athens—664,046, Europe/Athens, 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 largest city of Greece.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Athens is GeoNames ID 264371. Its recorded administrative path is Nomarchia Athinas → Attica → Greece, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Athens 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 2026-03-11; 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, Athens ranks 833 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Greece entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 63. Its 664,046 population value is 1.00 times the 664,046 median for the country cohort and 1.00 times the 664,046 regional median. Athens is rank 1 among the 1 selected Greece entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Athens'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.
Athens's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Karabağlar district at 300.796 km with 479,338 recorded people; İzmir at 301.806 km with 2,938,292 recorded people; Nilüfer at 511.65 km with 536,365 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 210.854 km. Compared with Karabağlar district, Athens's recorded population is 1.39 times as large. Against Athens, Karabağlar district follows Karabaglar → Izmir Province → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Türkiye cohort rather than Greece, uses Europe/Istanbul instead of Europe/Athens, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Athens's. Against Athens, İzmir follows Izmir Province → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Türkiye cohort rather than Greece, uses Europe/Istanbul instead of Europe/Athens, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Athens's. Against Athens, Nilüfer follows Niluefer → Bursa Province → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Türkiye cohort rather than Greece, uses Europe/Istanbul instead of Europe/Athens, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Athens's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,114 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Athens'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 264371, the coordinate pair 37.9838 / 23.7278, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 7701384 at 300.796 km bind Athens to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Athens's reference point is 37.9838° north and 23.7278° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Athens is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Athens's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Athens's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Athens's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Athens at 70 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
Athens's closest other entries in this atlas are Karabağlar district (300.796 km), İzmir (301.806 km), Nilüfer (511.65 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-03-11; 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.