1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Italy
Compare this sourced profile of Florence, Italy 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 Florence—367,150, Europe/Rome, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Florence is GeoNames ID 3176959. Its recorded administrative path is Province of Florence → Tuscany → Italy, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Florence 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 2026-03-23; 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, Florence ranks 1,202 by recorded population. Inside the 8 selected Italy entries it ranks 7; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 122. Its 367,150 population value is 0.49 times the 747,774 median for the country cohort and 0.55 times the 664,046 regional median. Florence is rank 7 among the 8 selected Italy entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Florence's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Florence's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Genoa at 196.544 km with 580,097 recorded people; Venice at 203.416 km with 51,298 recorded people; Rome at 233.834 km with 2,318,895 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 37.29 km. Compared with Genoa, Florence's recorded population is 0.63 times as large. Against Florence, Genoa follows Provincia di Genova → Liguria → Italy in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Florence's. Against Florence, Venice follows Provincia di Venezia → Veneto → Italy in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Florence's. Against Florence, Rome follows Citta metropolitana di Roma Capitale → Lazio → Italy in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Florence's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 985 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Florence'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 3176959, the coordinate pair 43.7793 / 11.2463, country rank 7 of 8, and neighbor GeoNames 3176219 at 196.544 km bind Florence to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Florence's reference point is 43.7793° north and 11.2463° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Rome is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Florence's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Florence's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Florence's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Florence at 50 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
Florence's closest other entries in this atlas are Genoa (196.544 km), Venice (203.416 km), Rome (233.834 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-03-23; 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.