1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Goiânia—1,536,097, America/Sao_Paulo, 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 Goiânia is GeoNames ID 3462377. Its recorded administrative path is Goiania → Goias → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Goiânia 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, Goiânia ranks 308 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 10; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 42. Its 1,536,097 population value is 2.03 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 1.88 times the 816,326 regional median. Goiânia falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. Goiânia's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Goiânia's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Aparecida de Goiânia at 16.127 km with 527,796 recorded people; Brasília at 173.137 km with 2,207,718 recorded people; Uberlândia at 269.684 km with 754,954 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 253.557 km. Compared with Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiânia's recorded population is 2.91 times as large. Against Goiânia, Aparecida de Goiânia follows Aparecida de Goiania → Goias → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Goiânia's. Against Goiânia, Brasília follows Brasilia → Federal District → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Goiânia's. Against Goiânia, Uberlândia follows Uberlandia → Minas Gerais → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Goiânia's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 222 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Goiânia's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter 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 3462377, the coordinate pair 16.6786 / 49.2539, country rank 10 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 6316406 at 16.127 km bind Goiânia to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Goiânia's reference point is 16.6786° south and 49.2539° west. The IANA identifier America/Sao_Paulo is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Goiânia's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Goiânia's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Goiânia's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Goiânia, 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
Goiânia's closest other entries in this atlas are Aparecida de Goiânia (16.127 km), Brasília (173.137 km), Uberlândia (269.684 km).
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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.