1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Charlotte—911,311, America/New_York, 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 and county seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Charlotte is GeoNames ID 4460243. Its recorded administrative path is Mecklenburg County → North Carolina → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Charlotte 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 2025-06-25; 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, Charlotte ranks 606 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 19; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 86. Its 911,311 population value is 1.17 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 1.12 times the 816,326 regional median. Charlotte sits in the second quarter of this atlas's United States population cohort. Charlotte'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.
Charlotte's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Raleigh at 208.559 km with 482,295 recorded people; Atlanta at 364.064 km with 510,823 recorded people; Washington, D.C. at 529.463 km with 689,545 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 320.904 km. Compared with Raleigh, Charlotte's recorded population is 1.89 times as large. Against Charlotte, Raleigh follows Wake County → North Carolina → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Charlotte's. Against Charlotte, Atlanta follows Fulton County → Georgia → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Charlotte's. Against Charlotte, Washington, D.C. follows District of Columbia → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Charlotte's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,016 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Charlotte'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 4460243, the coordinate pair 35.2271 / 80.8431, country rank 19 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 4487042 at 208.559 km bind Charlotte to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Charlotte's reference point is 35.2271° north and 80.8431° west. The IANA identifier America/New_York is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Charlotte's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Charlotte's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Charlotte's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Charlotte at 229 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
Charlotte's closest other entries in this atlas are Raleigh (208.559 km), Atlanta (364.064 km), Washington, D.C. (529.463 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-25; 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.