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 Brooklyn—2,736,074, 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: borough of New York City, New York, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Brooklyn is GeoNames ID 5110302. Its recorded administrative path is Kings County → New York → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Brooklyn 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 2022-08-24; 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, Brooklyn ranks 136 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 3; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 13. Its 2,736,074 population value is 3.50 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 3.35 times the 816,326 regional median. Brooklyn falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's United States population cohort. Brooklyn'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.
Brooklyn's three nearest other atlas coordinates are New York City at 8.575 km with 8,804,190 recorded people; Queens at 10.155 km with 2,316,841 recorded people; Manhattan at 14.892 km with 1,487,536 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 6.317 km. Compared with New York City, Brooklyn's recorded population is 0.31 times as large. Against Brooklyn, New York City follows New York → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Brooklyn's. Against Brooklyn, Queens follows Queens County → New York → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Brooklyn's. Against Brooklyn, Manhattan follows New York County → New York → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Brooklyn's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 135 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Brooklyn's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 5110302, the coordinate pair 40.6501 / 73.9496, country rank 3 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5128581 at 8.575 km bind Brooklyn to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Brooklyn's reference point is 40.6501° north and 73.9496° west. The IANA identifier America/New_York is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Brooklyn's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Brooklyn's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Brooklyn's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Brooklyn at 15 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
Brooklyn's closest other entries in this atlas are New York City (8.575 km), Queens (10.155 km), Manhattan (14.892 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-08-24; 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.