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 Atlanta—510,823, America/New_York, 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 city of the U.S. state of Georgia and seat of Fulton County, also located in DeKalb County.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Atlanta is GeoNames ID 4180439. Its recorded administrative path is Fulton County → Georgia → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Atlanta 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 2026-04-14; 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, Atlanta ranks 1,117 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 40; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 184. Its 510,823 population value is 0.65 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.63 times the 816,326 regional median. Atlanta sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. Atlanta'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.
Atlanta's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Nashville at 346.268 km with 689,447 recorded people; Charlotte at 364.064 km with 911,311 recorded people; Jacksonville at 458.945 km with 1,009,833 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 112.677 km. Compared with Nashville, Atlanta's recorded population is 0.74 times as large. Against Atlanta, Nashville follows Davidson County → Tennessee → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/Chicago instead of America/New_York, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Atlanta's. Against Atlanta, Charlotte follows Mecklenburg County → North Carolina → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Atlanta's. Against Atlanta, Jacksonville follows Duval County → Florida → 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/New_York identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Atlanta's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,141 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Atlanta'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 4180439, the coordinate pair 33.7490 / 84.3880, country rank 40 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 4644585 at 346.268 km bind Atlanta to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Atlanta's reference point is 33.7490° north and 84.3880° west. The IANA identifier America/New_York is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Atlanta's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Atlanta's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Atlanta's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Atlanta at 320 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
Atlanta's closest other entries in this atlas are Nashville (346.268 km), Charlotte (364.064 km), Jacksonville (458.945 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.