1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Canada
Compare this sourced profile of Edmonton, Canada 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 Edmonton—1,010,899, America/Edmonton, 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 province of Alberta, Canada.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Edmonton is GeoNames ID 5946768. Its recorded administrative path is Edmonton → Alberta → Canada, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Edmonton 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 2026-04-13; 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, Edmonton ranks 543 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Canada entries it ranks 5; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 72. Its 1,010,899 population value is 1.38 times the 733,784 median for the country cohort and 1.24 times the 816,326 regional median. Edmonton sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Canada population cohort. Edmonton's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Edmonton's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Calgary at 281.132 km with 1,306,784 recorded people; Surrey at 815.477 km with 568,322 recorded people; Vancouver at 821.603 km with 662,248 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 540.471 km. Compared with Calgary, Edmonton's recorded population is 0.77 times as large. Against Edmonton, Calgary follows Calgary → Alberta → Canada in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Edmonton identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Edmonton's. Against Edmonton, Surrey follows Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses America/Vancouver instead of America/Edmonton, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Edmonton's. Against Edmonton, Vancouver follows Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses America/Vancouver instead of America/Edmonton, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Edmonton's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,099 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Edmonton'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 5946768, the coordinate pair 53.5501 / 113.4687, country rank 5 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 5913490 at 281.132 km bind Edmonton to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Edmonton's reference point is 53.5501° north and 113.4687° west. The IANA identifier America/Edmonton is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Edmonton's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Edmonton's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Edmonton's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Edmonton at 668 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Edmonton's closest other entries in this atlas are Calgary (281.132 km), Surrey (815.477 km), Vancouver (821.603 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.