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 Denver—729,019, America/Denver, 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: consolidated city-county and capital of the U.S. state of Colorado.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Denver is GeoNames ID 5419384. Its recorded administrative path is Denver County → Colorado → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Denver 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 2026-04-14; 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, Denver ranks 756 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 23; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 111. Its 729,019 population value is 0.93 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.89 times the 816,326 regional median. Denver sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. Denver'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.
Denver's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Albuquerque at 538.064 km with 564,559 recorded people; Omaha at 782.737 km with 486,051 recorded people; Oklahoma City at 810.969 km with 681,054 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 272.905 km. Compared with Albuquerque, Denver's recorded population is 1.29 times as large. Against Denver, Albuquerque follows Bernalillo County → New Mexico → 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/Denver identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Denver's. Against Denver, Omaha follows Douglas County → Nebraska → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/Chicago instead of America/Denver, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Denver's. Against Denver, Oklahoma City follows Oklahoma County → Oklahoma → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/Chicago instead of America/Denver, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Denver's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,184 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Denver'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 5419384, the coordinate pair 39.7392 / 104.9847, country rank 23 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5454711 at 538.064 km bind Denver to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Denver's reference point is 39.7392° north and 104.9847° west. The IANA identifier America/Denver is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Denver's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Denver's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Denver's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Denver at 1,609 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
Denver's closest other entries in this atlas are Albuquerque (538.064 km), Omaha (782.737 km), Oklahoma City (810.969 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.