1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
Compare this sourced profile of Austin, United States 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 Austin—974,447, America/Chicago, 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 Texas and seat of Travis County.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Austin is GeoNames ID 4671654. Its recorded administrative path is Travis County → Texas → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Austin 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, Austin ranks 569 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 17; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 78. Its 974,447 population value is 1.25 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 1.19 times the 816,326 regional median. Austin sits in the second quarter of this atlas's United States population cohort. Austin'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.
Austin's three nearest other atlas coordinates are San Antonio at 118.438 km with 1,526,656 recorded people; Houston at 235.878 km with 2,314,157 recorded people; Fort Worth at 276.261 km with 1,008,106 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 157.823 km. Compared with San Antonio, Austin's recorded population is 0.64 times as large. Against Austin, San Antonio follows Bexar County → Texas → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Chicago identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Austin's. Against Austin, Houston follows Harris County → Texas → 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/Chicago identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Austin's. Against Austin, Fort Worth follows Tarrant County → Texas → 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/Chicago identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Austin's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 768 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Austin'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 4671654, the coordinate pair 30.2672 / 97.7431, country rank 17 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 4726206 at 118.438 km bind Austin to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Austin's reference point is 30.2672° north and 97.7431° west. The IANA identifier America/Chicago is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Austin's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Austin's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Austin's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Austin at 149 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
Austin's closest other entries in this atlas are San Antonio (118.438 km), Houston (235.878 km), Fort Worth (276.261 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.