1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of Brasília, Brazil 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 Brasília—2,207,718, America/Sao_Paulo, 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: federal capital of Brazil.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Brasília is GeoNames ID 3469058. Its recorded administrative path is Brasilia → Federal District → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Brasília 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 2024-06-29; 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, Brasília ranks 180 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 7; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 23. Its 2,207,718 population value is 2.91 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 2.70 times the 816,326 regional median. Brasília falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. Brasília'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.
Brasília's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Goiânia at 173.137 km with 1,536,097 recorded people; Aparecida de Goiânia at 182.035 km with 527,796 recorded people; Uberlândia at 350.971 km with 754,954 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 177.834 km. Compared with Goiânia, Brasília's recorded population is 1.44 times as large. Against Brasília, Goiânia follows Goiania → Goias → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Brasília's. Against Brasília, Aparecida de Goiânia follows Aparecida de Goiania → Goias → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Brasília's. Against Brasília, Uberlândia follows Uberlandia → Minas Gerais → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Brasília's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 941 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Brasília'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 3469058, the coordinate pair 15.7797 / 47.9297, country rank 7 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3462377 at 173.137 km bind Brasília to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Brasília's reference point is 15.7797° south and 47.9297° west. The IANA identifier America/Sao_Paulo is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Brasília's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Brasília's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Brasília's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Brasília, 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
Brasília's closest other entries in this atlas are Goiânia (173.137 km), Aparecida de Goiânia (182.035 km), Uberlândia (350.971 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-06-29; 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.