1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Australia
Compare this sourced profile of Brisbane, Australia 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 Brisbane—2,780,063, Australia/Brisbane, 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 Queensland, Australia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Brisbane is GeoNames ID 2174003. Its recorded administrative path is Brisbane → Queensland → Australia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Brisbane 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 2026-07-03; 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, Brisbane ranks 130 by recorded population. Inside the 7 selected Australia entries it ranks 3; inside the 8 entries in its broad region it ranks 3. Its 2,780,063 population value is 1.17 times the 2,384,371 median for the country cohort and 1.41 times the 1,965,786 regional median. Brisbane is rank 3 among the 7 selected Australia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Brisbane'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.
Brisbane's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Gold Coast at 71.243 km with 640,778 recorded people; Newcastle at 619.013 km with 508,437 recorded people; Sydney at 732.59 km with 5,638,830 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 661.347 km. Compared with Gold Coast, Brisbane's recorded population is 4.34 times as large. Against Brisbane, Gold Coast follows Gold Coast → Queensland → Australia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses the shared Australia/Brisbane identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Brisbane's. Against Brisbane, Newcastle follows Newcastle → New South Wales → Australia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses Australia/Sydney instead of Australia/Brisbane, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Brisbane's. Against Brisbane, Sydney follows New South Wales → Australia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses Australia/Sydney instead of Australia/Brisbane, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Brisbane's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 560 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Brisbane's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 2174003, the coordinate pair 27.4679 / 153.0281, country rank 3 of 7, and neighbor GeoNames 2165087 at 71.243 km bind Brisbane to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Brisbane's reference point is 27.4679° south and 153.0281° east. The IANA identifier Australia/Brisbane is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Brisbane's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Brisbane's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Brisbane's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Brisbane, 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
Brisbane's closest other entries in this atlas are Gold Coast (71.243 km), Newcastle (619.013 km), Sydney (732.59 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Brisbane, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-03; 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.