1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Türkiye
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Bursa—3,101,833, Europe/Istanbul, 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: city in Bursa province in western Turkey.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bursa is GeoNames ID 750269. Its recorded administrative path is Osmangazi → Bursa Province → Türkiye, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Bursa 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 2026-04-14; 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, Bursa ranks 111 by recorded population. Inside the 26 selected Türkiye entries it ranks 3; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 24. Its 3,101,833 population value is 3.92 times the 792,110 median for the country cohort and 3.44 times the 902,588 regional median. Bursa falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Türkiye population cohort. Bursa'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.
Bursa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Nilüfer at 12.438 km with 536,365 recorded people; Sancaktepe at 90.882 km with 489,848 recorded people; Bahçelievler at 91.284 km with 576,799 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 78.846 km. Compared with Nilüfer, Bursa's recorded population is 5.78 times as large. Against Bursa, Nilüfer follows Niluefer → Bursa Province → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Bursa's. Against Bursa, Sancaktepe follows Sancaktepe → Istanbul → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Bursa's. Against Bursa, Bahçelievler follows Bahcelievler → Istanbul → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Bursa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 183 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bursa'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 750269, the coordinate pair 40.1956 / 29.0601, country rank 3 of 26, and neighbor GeoNames 10346824 at 12.438 km bind Bursa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bursa's reference point is 40.1956° north and 29.0601° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Istanbul is shared by 26 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Bursa's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bursa's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bursa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bursa, 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
Bursa's closest other entries in this atlas are Nilüfer (12.438 km), Sancaktepe (90.882 km), Bahçelievler (91.284 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.