1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United Kingdom
Compare this sourced profile of Birmingham, United Kingdom 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 Birmingham—1,157,603, Europe/London, 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 the West Midlands, England.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Birmingham is GeoNames ID 2655603. Its recorded administrative path is City and Borough of Birmingham → England → United Kingdom, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Birmingham 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 2025-06-26; 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, Birmingham ranks 468 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected United Kingdom entries it ranks 2; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 29. Its 1,157,603 population value is 2.08 times the 556,500 median for the country cohort and 1.74 times the 664,046 regional median. Birmingham is rank 2 among the 9 selected United Kingdom entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Birmingham'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.
Birmingham's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sheffield at 104.381 km with 556,500 recorded people; Manchester at 113.417 km with 568,996 recorded people; Bristol at 123.689 km with 479,024 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 19.308 km. Compared with Sheffield, Birmingham's recorded population is 2.08 times as large. Against Birmingham, Sheffield follows Sheffield → England → United Kingdom in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Kingdom cohort, uses the shared Europe/London identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Birmingham's. Against Birmingham, Manchester follows Manchester → England → United Kingdom in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Kingdom cohort, uses the shared Europe/London identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Birmingham's. Against Birmingham, Bristol follows City of Bristol → England → United Kingdom in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Kingdom cohort, uses the shared Europe/London identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Birmingham's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 710 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Birmingham'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 2655603, the coordinate pair 52.4814 / 1.8998, country rank 2 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 2638077 at 104.381 km bind Birmingham to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Birmingham's reference point is 52.4814° north and 1.8998° west. The IANA identifier Europe/London is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Birmingham's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Birmingham's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Birmingham's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Birmingham, 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
Birmingham's closest other entries in this atlas are Sheffield (104.381 km), Manchester (113.417 km), Bristol (123.689 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-26; 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.