1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Canada
Compare this sourced profile of Calgary, Canada 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 Calgary—1,306,784, America/Edmonton, 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: largest city in Alberta, Canada.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Calgary is GeoNames ID 5913490. Its recorded administrative path is Calgary → Alberta → Canada, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Calgary 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 2026-01-20; 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, Calgary ranks 386 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Canada entries it ranks 3; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 55. Its 1,306,784 population value is 1.78 times the 733,784 median for the country cohort and 1.60 times the 816,326 regional median. Calgary falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Canada population cohort. Calgary's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Calgary's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Edmonton at 281.132 km with 1,010,899 recorded people; Surrey at 659.563 km with 568,322 recorded people; Vancouver at 673.596 km with 662,248 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 392.464 km. Compared with Edmonton, Calgary's recorded population is 1.29 times as large. Against Calgary, Edmonton follows Edmonton → Alberta → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Edmonton identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Calgary's. Against Calgary, Surrey follows Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses America/Vancouver instead of America/Edmonton, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Calgary's. Against Calgary, Vancouver follows Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses America/Vancouver instead of America/Edmonton, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Calgary's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,099 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Calgary'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 5913490, the coordinate pair 51.0501 / 114.0853, country rank 3 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 5946768 at 281.132 km bind Calgary to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Calgary's reference point is 51.0501° north and 114.0853° west. The IANA identifier America/Edmonton is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Calgary's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Calgary's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Calgary's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Calgary at 1,048 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
Calgary's closest other entries in this atlas are Edmonton (281.132 km), Surrey (659.563 km), Vancouver (673.596 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Calgary, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-20; 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.