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 Düsseldorf—618,685, 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 German federated state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Düsseldorf is GeoNames ID 2934246. Its recorded administrative path is Duesseldorf District → North Rhine-Westphalia → Germany, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Düsseldorf 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, Düsseldorf ranks 900 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Germany entries it ranks 6; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 75. Its 618,685 population value is 1.04 times the 593,085 median for the country cohort and 0.93 times the 664,046 regional median. Düsseldorf sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Germany population cohort. Düsseldorf'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.
Düsseldorf's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Duisburg at 23.292 km with 504,358 recorded people; Essen at 30.584 km with 593,085 recorded people; Köln at 34.367 km with 1,024,621 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 11.075 km. Compared with Duisburg, Düsseldorf's recorded population is 1.23 times as large. Against Düsseldorf, Duisburg follows Duesseldorf District → North Rhine-Westphalia → 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 Düsseldorf's. Against Düsseldorf, Essen follows Duesseldorf District → North Rhine-Westphalia → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher 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 Düsseldorf's. Against Düsseldorf, Köln follows Regierungsbezirk Koeln → North Rhine-Westphalia → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Düsseldorf's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 288 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Düsseldorf's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 2934246, the coordinate pair 51.2232 / 6.7793, country rank 6 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 2934691 at 23.292 km bind Düsseldorf to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Düsseldorf's reference point is 51.2232° north and 6.7793° 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. Düsseldorf's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Düsseldorf's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Düsseldorf's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Düsseldorf, 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
Düsseldorf's closest other entries in this atlas are Duisburg (23.292 km), Essen (30.584 km), Köln (34.367 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.
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