1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Serbia
Compare this sourced profile of Belgrade, Serbia 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 Belgrade—1,273,651, Europe/Belgrade, 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 Serbia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Belgrade is GeoNames ID 792680. Its recorded administrative path is Belgrade → Central Serbia → Serbia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Belgrade 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 2026-01-15; 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, Belgrade ranks 400 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Serbia entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 22. Its 1,273,651 population value is 1.00 times the 1,273,651 median for the country cohort and 1.92 times the 664,046 regional median. Belgrade is rank 1 among the 1 selected Serbia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Belgrade'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.
Belgrade's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sarajevo at 198.537 km with 696,731 recorded people; Pristina at 243.599 km with 550,000 recorded people; Budapest at 319.049 km with 1,741,041 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 120.512 km. Compared with Sarajevo, Belgrade's recorded population is 1.83 times as large. Against Belgrade, Sarajevo follows Canton of Sarajevo → Federation of B&H → Bosnia & Herzegovina in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Bosnia & Herzegovina cohort rather than Serbia, uses Europe/Sarajevo instead of Europe/Belgrade, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Belgrade's. Against Belgrade, Pristina follows Komuna e Prishtines → Pristina → Kosovo in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Kosovo cohort rather than Serbia, uses the shared Europe/Belgrade identifier, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Belgrade's. Against Belgrade, Budapest follows Budapest → Hungary in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Hungary cohort rather than Serbia, uses Europe/Budapest instead of Europe/Belgrade, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Belgrade's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 990 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Belgrade'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 792680, the coordinate pair 44.8040 / 20.4651, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 3191281 at 198.537 km bind Belgrade to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Belgrade's reference point is 44.8040° north and 20.4651° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Belgrade is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Belgrade's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Belgrade's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Belgrade's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Belgrade, 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
Belgrade's closest other entries in this atlas are Sarajevo (198.537 km), Pristina (243.599 km), Budapest (319.049 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-15; 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.