1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico 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 Ecatepec de Morelos—1,645,352, America/Mexico_City, 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: cabecera del municipio de Ecatepec, Estado de México, México.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ecatepec de Morelos is GeoNames ID 3529612. Its recorded administrative path is Ecatepec de Morelos → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Ecatepec de Morelos 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 2025-07-31; 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, Ecatepec de Morelos ranks 275 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 5; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 37. Its 1,645,352 population value is 2.04 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 2.02 times the 816,326 regional median. Ecatepec de Morelos falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Mexico population cohort. Ecatepec de Morelos's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Ecatepec de Morelos's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Gustavo Adolfo Madero at 13.413 km with 1,185,772 recorded people; Tlalnepantla at 15.853 km with 653,410 recorded people; Cuautitlán Izcalli at 16.837 km with 555,163 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 3.424 km. Compared with Gustavo Adolfo Madero, Ecatepec de Morelos's recorded population is 1.39 times as large. Against Ecatepec de Morelos, Gustavo Adolfo Madero follows Gustavo A. Madero → Mexico City → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ecatepec de Morelos's. Against Ecatepec de Morelos, Tlalnepantla follows Tlalnepantla de Baz → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ecatepec de Morelos's. Against Ecatepec de Morelos, Cuautitlán Izcalli follows Cuautitlan Izcalli → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ecatepec de Morelos's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 194 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ecatepec de Morelos'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 3529612, the coordinate pair 19.6049 / 99.0606, country rank 5 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 3514674 at 13.413 km bind Ecatepec de Morelos to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ecatepec de Morelos's reference point is 19.6049° north and 99.0606° west. The IANA identifier America/Mexico_City is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Ecatepec de Morelos's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ecatepec de Morelos's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ecatepec de Morelos's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ecatepec de Morelos, 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
Ecatepec de Morelos's closest other entries in this atlas are Gustavo Adolfo Madero (13.413 km), Tlalnepantla (15.853 km), Cuautitlán Izcalli (16.837 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-07-31; 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.