1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Chiba, Japan 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 Chiba—979,768, Asia/Tokyo, 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 Chiba prefecture, Japan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Chiba is GeoNames ID 2113015. Its recorded administrative path is Chiba Shi → Chiba → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Chiba 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 2025-06-21; 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, Chiba ranks 565 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 13; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 328. Its 979,768 population value is 1.27 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 0.97 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Chiba sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Japan population cohort. Chiba'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.
Chiba's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Matsudo at 27.896 km with 498,575 recorded people; Ōta at 36.485 km with 748,081 recorded people; Kawasaki at 37.197 km with 1,538,262 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 9.301 km. Compared with Matsudo, Chiba's recorded population is 1.97 times as large. Against Chiba, Matsudo follows Matsudo Shi → Chiba → Japan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Chiba's. Against Chiba, Ōta follows Ota-ku → Tokyo → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Chiba's. Against Chiba, Kawasaki follows Kawasaki-shi → Kanagawa → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Chiba's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 308 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Chiba's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 2113015, the coordinate pair 35.6000 / 140.1167, country rank 13 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1857553 at 27.896 km bind Chiba to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Chiba's reference point is 35.6000° north and 140.1167° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tokyo is shared by 34 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Chiba's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Chiba's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Chiba's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Chiba, 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
Chiba's closest other entries in this atlas are Matsudo (27.896 km), Ōta (36.485 km), Kawasaki (37.197 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Chiba, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-21; 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.