1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Germany
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Frankfurt—650,000, Europe/Berlin, 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: most populated city of Hesse, Germany.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Frankfurt is GeoNames ID 2925533. Its recorded administrative path is Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt → Hesse → Germany, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Frankfurt am Main 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 2026-04-16; 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, Frankfurt ranks 854 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Germany entries it ranks 5; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 66. Its 650,000 population value is 1.10 times the 593,085 median for the country cohort and 0.98 times the 664,046 regional median. Frankfurt sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Germany population cohort. Frankfurt'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.
Frankfurt's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Stuttgart at 152.465 km with 612,663 recorded people; Köln at 152.631 km with 1,024,621 recorded people; Dortmund at 177.585 km with 588,462 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 25.12 km. Compared with Stuttgart, Frankfurt's recorded population is 1.06 times as large. Against Frankfurt, Stuttgart follows Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart → Baden-Wurttemberg → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Frankfurt's. Against Frankfurt, Köln follows Regierungsbezirk Koeln → North Rhine-Westphalia → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Frankfurt's. Against Frankfurt, Dortmund follows Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg → North Rhine-Westphalia → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries the same third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Frankfurt's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 884 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Frankfurt'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 2925533, the coordinate pair 50.1155 / 8.6842, country rank 5 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 2825297 at 152.465 km bind Frankfurt to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Frankfurt's reference point is 50.1155° north and 8.6842° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Berlin is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Frankfurt's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Frankfurt's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Frankfurt's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Frankfurt, 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
Frankfurt's closest other entries in this atlas are Stuttgart (152.465 km), Köln (152.631 km), Dortmund (177.585 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 2026-04-16; 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.