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 Dresden—564,904, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dresden is GeoNames ID 2935022. Its recorded administrative path is Saxony → Germany, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Dresden 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 2026-05-06; 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, Dresden ranks 985 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Germany entries it ranks 10; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 89. Its 564,904 population value is 0.95 times the 593,085 median for the country cohort and 0.85 times the 664,046 regional median. Dresden sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Germany entries. Dresden'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.
Dresden's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Leipzig at 100.521 km with 504,971 recorded people; Prague at 117.411 km with 1,165,581 recorded people; Berlin at 165.387 km with 3,426,354 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 64.866 km. Compared with Leipzig, Dresden's recorded population is 1.12 times as large. Against Dresden, Leipzig follows Saxony → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Dresden's. Against Dresden, Prague follows Prague → Czechia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Czechia cohort rather than Germany, uses Europe/Prague instead of Europe/Berlin, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Dresden's. Against Dresden, Berlin follows State of Berlin → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Dresden's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 702 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dresden'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 2935022, the coordinate pair 51.0509 / 13.7383, country rank 10 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 2879139 at 100.521 km bind Dresden to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dresden's reference point is 51.0509° north and 13.7383° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Berlin is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Dresden's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Dresden's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dresden's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dresden, 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
Dresden's closest other entries in this atlas are Leipzig (100.521 km), Prague (117.411 km), Berlin (165.387 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-05-06; 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.