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 Baltimore—585,708, 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: city in Maryland, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Baltimore is GeoNames ID 4347778. Its recorded administrative path is City of Baltimore → Maryland → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Baltimore 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 2025-07-24; 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, Baltimore ranks 954 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 34; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 154. Its 585,708 population value is 0.75 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.72 times the 816,326 regional median. Baltimore sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. Baltimore'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.
Baltimore's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Washington, D.C. at 57.2 km with 689,545 recorded people; Philadelphia at 144.261 km with 1,573,916 recorded people; Brooklyn at 272.639 km with 2,736,074 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 215.439 km. Compared with Washington, D.C., Baltimore's recorded population is 0.85 times as large. Against Baltimore, Washington, D.C. follows District of Columbia → 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/New_York identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Baltimore's. Against Baltimore, Philadelphia follows Philadelphia County → Pennsylvania → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Baltimore's. Against Baltimore, Brooklyn follows Kings County → New York → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Baltimore's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 485 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Baltimore'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 4347778, the coordinate pair 39.2904 / 76.6122, country rank 34 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 4140963 at 57.2 km bind Baltimore to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Baltimore's reference point is 39.2904° north and 76.6122° west. The IANA identifier America/New_York is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Baltimore's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Baltimore's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Baltimore's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Baltimore at 10 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
Baltimore's closest other entries in this atlas are Washington, D.C. (57.2 km), Philadelphia (144.261 km), Brooklyn (272.639 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-07-24; 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.