1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Australia
Compare this sourced profile of Gold Coast, Australia 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 Gold Coast—640,778, Australia/Brisbane, 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 Queensland, Australia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Gold Coast is GeoNames ID 2165087. Its recorded administrative path is Gold Coast → Queensland → Australia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Gold Coast 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 2022-07-15; 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, Gold Coast ranks 868 by recorded population. Inside the 7 selected Australia entries it ranks 6; inside the 8 entries in its broad region it ranks 7. Its 640,778 population value is 0.27 times the 2,384,371 median for the country cohort and 0.33 times the 1,965,786 regional median. Gold Coast is rank 6 among the 7 selected Australia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Gold Coast'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.
Gold Coast's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Brisbane at 71.243 km with 2,780,063 recorded people; Newcastle at 570.457 km with 508,437 recorded people; Sydney at 685.986 km with 5,638,830 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 614.743 km. Compared with Brisbane, Gold Coast's recorded population is 0.23 times as large. Against Gold Coast, Brisbane follows Brisbane → Queensland → Australia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses the shared Australia/Brisbane identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Gold Coast's. Against Gold Coast, Newcastle follows Newcastle → New South Wales → Australia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses Australia/Sydney instead of Australia/Brisbane, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Gold Coast's. Against Gold Coast, Sydney follows New South Wales → Australia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses Australia/Sydney instead of Australia/Brisbane, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Gold Coast's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 560 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Gold Coast's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 2165087, the coordinate pair 28.0003 / 153.4309, country rank 6 of 7, and neighbor GeoNames 2174003 at 71.243 km bind Gold Coast to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Gold Coast's reference point is 28.0003° south and 153.4309° east. The IANA identifier Australia/Brisbane is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Gold Coast's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Gold Coast's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Gold Coast's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Gold Coast, 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
Gold Coast's closest other entries in this atlas are Brisbane (71.243 km), Newcastle (570.457 km), Sydney (685.986 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 2022-07-15; 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.