1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Germany
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Dortmund—588,462, Europe/Berlin, 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 Dortmund is GeoNames ID 2935517. Its recorded administrative path is Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg → North Rhine-Westphalia → Germany, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Dortmund 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 2021-07-25; 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, Dortmund ranks 953 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Germany entries it ranks 9; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 85. Its 588,462 population value is 0.99 times the 593,085 median for the country cohort and 0.89 times the 664,046 regional median. Dortmund sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Germany entries. Dortmund'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.
Dortmund's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Essen at 32.08 km with 593,085 recorded people; Duisburg at 49.399 km with 504,358 recorded people; Düsseldorf at 57.663 km with 618,685 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 25.583 km. Compared with Essen, Dortmund's recorded population is 0.99 times as large. Against Dortmund, Essen follows Duesseldorf District → North Rhine-Westphalia → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries the same third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Dortmund's. Against Dortmund, Duisburg follows Duesseldorf District → North Rhine-Westphalia → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries the same third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Dortmund's. Against Dortmund, Düsseldorf follows Duesseldorf District → North Rhine-Westphalia → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Dortmund's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 330 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dortmund'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 2935517, the coordinate pair 51.5149 / 7.4660, country rank 9 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 2928810 at 32.08 km bind Dortmund to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dortmund's reference point is 51.5149° north and 7.4660° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Berlin is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Dortmund's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dortmund's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dortmund's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dortmund, 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
Dortmund's closest other entries in this atlas are Essen (32.08 km), Duisburg (49.399 km), Düsseldorf (57.663 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-07-25; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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