1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
New Zealand
Compare this sourced profile of Auckland, New Zealand 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 Auckland—1,547,200, Pacific/Auckland, 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 on the North Island, New Zealand.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Auckland is GeoNames ID 2193733. Its recorded administrative path is Auckland → New Zealand, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Auckland 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 2026-05-02; 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, Auckland ranks 300 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected New Zealand entries it ranks 1; inside the 8 entries in its broad region it ranks 5. Its 1,547,200 population value is 1.00 times the 1,547,200 median for the country cohort and 0.79 times the 1,965,786 regional median. Auckland is rank 1 among the 1 selected New Zealand entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Auckland'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.
Auckland's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Newcastle at 2,135.569 km with 508,437 recorded people; Sydney at 2,156.12 km with 5,638,830 recorded people; Gold Coast at 2,223.962 km with 640,778 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 88.393 km. Compared with Newcastle, Auckland's recorded population is 3.04 times as large. Against Auckland, Newcastle follows Newcastle → New South Wales → Australia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Australia cohort rather than New Zealand, uses Australia/Sydney instead of Pacific/Auckland, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Auckland's. Against Auckland, Sydney follows New South Wales → Australia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Australia cohort rather than New Zealand, uses Australia/Sydney instead of Pacific/Auckland, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Auckland's. Against Auckland, Gold Coast follows Gold Coast → Queensland → Australia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Australia cohort rather than New Zealand, uses Australia/Brisbane instead of Pacific/Auckland, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Auckland's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,206 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Auckland'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 2193733, the coordinate pair 36.8485 / 174.7635, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2155472 at 2,135.569 km bind Auckland to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Auckland's reference point is 36.8485° south and 174.7635° east. The IANA identifier Pacific/Auckland is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Auckland's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Auckland's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Auckland's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Auckland, 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
Auckland's closest other entries in this atlas are Newcastle (2,135.569 km), Sydney (2,156.12 km), Gold Coast (2,223.962 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Auckland, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-05-02; 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.