1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for El Paso—678,815, America/Denver, 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: city in and county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind El Paso is GeoNames ID 5520993. Its recorded administrative path is El Paso County → Texas → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. El Paso 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 2025-06-25; 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, El Paso ranks 817 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 27; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 124. Its 678,815 population value is 0.87 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.83 times the 816,326 regional median. El Paso sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. El Paso'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.
El Paso's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ciudad Juárez at 4.939 km with 1,512,450 recorded people; Chihuahua City at 349.41 km with 925,762 recorded people; Albuquerque at 370.122 km with 564,559 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 365.183 km. Compared with Ciudad Juárez, El Paso's recorded population is 0.45 times as large. Against El Paso, Ciudad Juárez follows Juarez → Chihuahua → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Mexico cohort rather than United States, uses America/Ciudad_Juarez instead of America/Denver, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above El Paso's. Against El Paso, Chihuahua City follows Chihuahua → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Mexico cohort rather than United States, uses America/Chihuahua instead of America/Denver, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above El Paso's. Against El Paso, Albuquerque follows Bernalillo County → New Mexico → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Denver identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below El Paso's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 43 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. El Paso's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth 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 5520993, the coordinate pair 31.7587 / 106.4869, country rank 27 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 4013708 at 4.939 km bind El Paso to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
El Paso's reference point is 31.7587° north and 106.4869° west. The IANA identifier America/Denver is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. El Paso's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. El Paso's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. El Paso's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records El Paso at 1,133 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
El Paso's closest other entries in this atlas are Ciudad Juárez (4.939 km), Chihuahua City (349.41 km), Albuquerque (370.122 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-25; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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