1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United Kingdom
Compare this sourced profile of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 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 Edinburgh—514,990, Europe/London, 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 Scotland, UK.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Edinburgh is GeoNames ID 2650225. Its recorded administrative path is City of Edinburgh → Scotland → United Kingdom, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Edinburgh 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 2026-02-23; 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, Edinburgh ranks 1,108 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected United Kingdom entries it ranks 7; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 108. Its 514,990 population value is 0.93 times the 556,500 median for the country cohort and 0.78 times the 664,046 regional median. Edinburgh is rank 7 among the 9 selected United Kingdom entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Edinburgh'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.
Edinburgh's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Glasgow at 66.839 km with 626,410 recorded people; Leeds at 261.852 km with 536,280 recorded people; Manchester at 281.587 km with 568,996 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 214.748 km. Compared with Glasgow, Edinburgh's recorded population is 0.82 times as large. Against Edinburgh, Glasgow follows Glasgow City → Scotland → United Kingdom in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Kingdom cohort, uses the shared Europe/London identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Edinburgh's. Against Edinburgh, Leeds follows City and Borough of Leeds → England → United Kingdom in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Kingdom cohort, uses the shared Europe/London identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Edinburgh's. Against Edinburgh, Manchester follows Manchester → England → United Kingdom in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Kingdom cohort, uses the shared Europe/London identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Edinburgh's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 536 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Edinburgh'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 2650225, the coordinate pair 55.9521 / 3.1965, country rank 7 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 2648579 at 66.839 km bind Edinburgh to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Edinburgh's reference point is 55.9521° north and 3.1965° west. The IANA identifier Europe/London is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Edinburgh's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Edinburgh's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Edinburgh's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Edinburgh, 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
Edinburgh's closest other entries in this atlas are Glasgow (66.839 km), Leeds (261.852 km), Manchester (281.587 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Edinburgh, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-02-23; 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.