1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Romania
Compare this sourced profile of Bucharest, Romania 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 Bucharest—1,877,155, Europe/Bucharest, 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 and largest city of Romania.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bucharest is GeoNames ID 683506. Its recorded administrative path is Municipiul Bucuresti → Bucharest → Romania, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Bucharest 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 2026-01-09; 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, Bucharest ranks 222 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Romania entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 10. Its 1,877,155 population value is 1.00 times the 1,877,155 median for the country cohort and 2.83 times the 664,046 regional median. Bucharest is rank 1 among the 1 selected Romania entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Bucharest'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.
Bucharest's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sofia at 295.696 km with 1,152,556 recorded people; Chișinău at 357.407 km with 635,994 recorded people; Odesa at 427.637 km with 1,010,537 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 131.941 km. Compared with Sofia, Bucharest's recorded population is 1.63 times as large. Against Bucharest, Sofia follows Stolichna Obshtina → Sofia-Capital → Bulgaria in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Bulgaria cohort rather than Romania, uses Europe/Sofia instead of Europe/Bucharest, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Bucharest's. Against Bucharest, Chișinău follows Chisinau Municipality → Moldova in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Moldova cohort rather than Romania, uses Europe/Chisinau instead of Europe/Bucharest, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Bucharest's. Against Bucharest, Odesa follows Odeskyi Raion → Odesa → Ukraine in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Ukraine cohort rather than Romania, uses Europe/Kyiv instead of Europe/Bucharest, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Bucharest's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,109 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bucharest'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 683506, the coordinate pair 44.4323 / 26.1063, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 727011 at 295.696 km bind Bucharest to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bucharest's reference point is 44.4323° north and 26.1063° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Bucharest is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Bucharest's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bucharest's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bucharest's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bucharest, 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
Bucharest's closest other entries in this atlas are Sofia (295.696 km), Chișinău (357.407 km), Odesa (427.637 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-09; 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.