1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Hungary
Compare this sourced profile of Budapest, Hungary 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 Budapest—1,741,041, Europe/Budapest, 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 Hungary.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Budapest is GeoNames ID 3054643. Its recorded administrative path is Budapest → Hungary, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Budapest 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 2026-07-29; 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, Budapest ranks 252 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Hungary entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 12. Its 1,741,041 population value is 1.00 times the 1,741,041 median for the country cohort and 2.62 times the 664,046 regional median. Budapest is rank 1 among the 1 selected Hungary entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Budapest'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.
Budapest's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Vienna at 214.173 km with 1,691,468 recorded people; Kraków at 292.461 km with 816,614 recorded people; Zagreb at 299.442 km with 663,592 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 85.269 km. Compared with Vienna, Budapest's recorded population is 1.03 times as large. Against Budapest, Vienna follows Wien Stadt → State of Vienna → Austria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Austria cohort rather than Hungary, uses Europe/Vienna instead of Europe/Budapest, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Budapest's. Against Budapest, Kraków follows Krakow → Lesser Poland → Poland in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Poland cohort rather than Hungary, uses Europe/Warsaw instead of Europe/Budapest, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Budapest's. Against Budapest, Zagreb follows Zagreb → Croatia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Croatia cohort rather than Hungary, uses Europe/Zagreb instead of Europe/Budapest, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Budapest's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,025 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Budapest'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 3054643, the coordinate pair 47.4984 / 19.0405, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2761369 at 214.173 km bind Budapest to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Budapest's reference point is 47.4984° north and 19.0405° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Budapest is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Budapest's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Budapest's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Budapest's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Budapest, 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
Budapest's closest other entries in this atlas are Vienna (214.173 km), Kraków (292.461 km), Zagreb (299.442 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-29; 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.