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 Boston—653,833, 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: capital city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and seat of Suffolk County.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Boston is GeoNames ID 4930956. Its recorded administrative path is Suffolk County → Massachusetts → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Boston 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, Boston ranks 849 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 28; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 133. Its 653,833 population value is 0.84 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.80 times the 816,326 regional median. Boston sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. Boston'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.
Boston's three nearest other atlas coordinates are The Bronx at 287.369 km with 1,385,108 recorded people; Queens at 296.977 km with 2,316,841 recorded people; Manhattan at 298.52 km with 1,487,536 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 11.151 km. Compared with The Bronx, Boston's recorded population is 0.47 times as large. Against Boston, The Bronx follows Bronx County → New York → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Boston's. Against Boston, Queens follows Queens County → New York → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Boston's. Against Boston, Manhattan follows New York County → New York → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Boston's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,102 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Boston'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 4930956, the coordinate pair 42.3584 / 71.0598, country rank 28 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5110266 at 287.369 km bind Boston to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Boston's reference point is 42.3584° north and 71.0598° west. The IANA identifier America/New_York is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Boston's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Boston's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Boston's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Boston at 14 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
Boston's closest other entries in this atlas are The Bronx (287.369 km), Queens (296.977 km), Manhattan (298.52 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.