1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Denmark
Compare this sourced profile of Copenhagen, Denmark 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 Copenhagen—1,153,615, Europe/Copenhagen, 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: capital and largest city of Denmark.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Copenhagen is GeoNames ID 2618425. Its recorded administrative path is Kobenhavn → Capital Region → Denmark, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Copenhagen 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 2024-09-05; 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, Copenhagen ranks 469 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Denmark entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 30. Its 1,153,615 population value is 1.00 times the 1,153,615 median for the country cohort and 1.74 times the 664,046 regional median. Copenhagen is rank 1 among the 1 selected Denmark entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Copenhagen'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.
Copenhagen's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Gothenburg at 228.799 km with 608,462 recorded people; Hamburg at 288.545 km with 1,973,896 recorded people; Berlin at 354.736 km with 3,426,354 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 125.937 km. Compared with Gothenburg, Copenhagen's recorded population is 1.90 times as large. Against Copenhagen, Gothenburg follows Goeteborgs stad → Vaestra Goetaland → Sweden in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Sweden cohort rather than Denmark, uses Europe/Stockholm instead of Europe/Copenhagen, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Copenhagen's. Against Copenhagen, Hamburg follows Hamburg → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Germany cohort rather than Denmark, uses Europe/Berlin instead of Europe/Copenhagen, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Copenhagen's. Against Copenhagen, Berlin follows State of Berlin → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Germany cohort rather than Denmark, uses Europe/Berlin instead of Europe/Copenhagen, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Copenhagen's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,039 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Copenhagen'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 2618425, the coordinate pair 55.6759 / 12.5655, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2711537 at 228.799 km bind Copenhagen to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Copenhagen's reference point is 55.6759° north and 12.5655° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Copenhagen is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Copenhagen's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Copenhagen's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Copenhagen's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Copenhagen, 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
Copenhagen's closest other entries in this atlas are Gothenburg (228.799 km), Hamburg (288.545 km), Berlin (354.736 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-09-05; 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.