1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Philippines
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Caloocan—1,712,945, Asia/Manila, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Caloocan is GeoNames ID 1720151. Its recorded administrative path is Northern Manila District → National Capital Region → Philippines, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Caloocan 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, Caloocan ranks 257 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected Philippines entries it ranks 3; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 152. Its 1,712,945 population value is 2.15 times the 797,334 median for the country cohort and 1.70 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Caloocan falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Philippines population cohort. Caloocan'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.
Caloocan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Manila at 5.271 km with 1,600,000 recorded people; Valenzuela at 5.613 km with 725,173 recorded people; Quezon City at 8.932 km with 3,084,270 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 3.661 km. Compared with Manila, Caloocan's recorded population is 1.07 times as large. Against Caloocan, Manila follows Capital District → National Capital Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Caloocan's. Against Caloocan, Valenzuela follows Northern Manila District → National Capital Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Caloocan's. Against Caloocan, Quezon City follows Eastern Manila District → National Capital Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Caloocan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 55 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Caloocan's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth 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 1720151, the coordinate pair 14.6495 / 120.9679, country rank 3 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1701668 at 5.271 km bind Caloocan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Caloocan's reference point is 14.6495° north and 120.9679° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Manila is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Caloocan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Caloocan's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Caloocan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Caloocan, 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
Caloocan's closest other entries in this atlas are Manila (5.271 km), Valenzuela (5.613 km), Quezon City (8.932 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.