1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Germany
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Berlin—3,426,354, Europe/Berlin, 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: federated state, capital and largest city of Germany.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Berlin is GeoNames ID 2950159. Its recorded administrative path is State of Berlin → Germany, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Berlin 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 2025-07-22; 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, Berlin ranks 100 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Germany entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 4. Its 3,426,354 population value is 5.78 times the 593,085 median for the country cohort and 5.16 times the 664,046 regional median. Berlin falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Germany population cohort. Berlin's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Berlin's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Leipzig at 149.769 km with 504,971 recorded people; Dresden at 165.387 km with 564,904 recorded people; Poznań at 238.752 km with 536,151 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 88.983 km. Compared with Leipzig, Berlin's recorded population is 6.79 times as large. Against Berlin, Leipzig follows Saxony → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Berlin's. Against Berlin, Dresden follows Saxony → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Berlin's. Against Berlin, Poznań follows Poznan → Greater Poland → Poland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Poland cohort rather than Germany, uses Europe/Warsaw instead of Europe/Berlin, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Berlin's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 877 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Berlin'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 2950159, the coordinate pair 52.5244 / 13.4105, country rank 1 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 2879139 at 149.769 km bind Berlin to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Berlin's reference point is 52.5244° north and 13.4105° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Berlin is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Berlin's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Berlin's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Berlin's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Berlin at 74 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
Berlin's closest other entries in this atlas are Leipzig (149.769 km), Dresden (165.387 km), Poznań (238.752 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-07-22; 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.