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 Fresno—542,107, America/Los_Angeles, 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: county seat of Fresno County, California, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Fresno is GeoNames ID 5350937. Its recorded administrative path is Fresno County → California → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Fresno 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, Fresno ranks 1,037 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 38; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 168. Its 542,107 population value is 0.69 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.66 times the 816,326 regional median. Fresno sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. Fresno'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.
Fresno's three nearest other atlas coordinates are San Jose at 199.538 km with 997,368 recorded people; Sacramento at 254.067 km with 524,943 recorded people; San Francisco at 260.606 km with 827,526 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 61.068 km. Compared with San Jose, Fresno's recorded population is 0.54 times as large. Against Fresno, San Jose follows Santa Clara County → California → 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/Los_Angeles identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Fresno's. Against Fresno, Sacramento follows Sacramento County → California → 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/Los_Angeles identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Fresno's. Against Fresno, San Francisco follows City and County of San Francisco → California → 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/Los_Angeles identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Fresno's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 992 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Fresno'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 5350937, the coordinate pair 36.7477 / 119.7724, country rank 38 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5392171 at 199.538 km bind Fresno to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Fresno's reference point is 36.7477° north and 119.7724° west. The IANA identifier America/Los_Angeles is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Fresno's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Fresno's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Fresno's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Fresno at 94 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
Fresno's closest other entries in this atlas are San Jose (199.538 km), Sacramento (254.067 km), San Francisco (260.606 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.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.