1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Sweden
Compare this sourced profile of Gothenburg, Sweden 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 Gothenburg—608,462, Europe/Stockholm, 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: second-largest city in Sweden and capital of the Västra Götaland County.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Gothenburg is GeoNames ID 2711537. Its recorded administrative path is Goeteborgs stad → Vaestra Goetaland → Sweden, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Gothenburg 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 2026-05-07; 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, Gothenburg ranks 916 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Sweden entries it ranks 2; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 79. Its 608,462 population value is 0.57 times the 1,061,740 median for the country cohort and 0.92 times the 664,046 regional median. Gothenburg is rank 2 among the 2 selected Sweden entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Gothenburg'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.
Gothenburg's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Copenhagen at 228.799 km with 1,153,615 recorded people; Oslo at 255.112 km with 1,082,575 recorded people; Stockholm at 397.401 km with 1,515,017 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 168.602 km. Compared with Copenhagen, Gothenburg's recorded population is 0.53 times as large. Against Gothenburg, Copenhagen follows Kobenhavn → Capital Region → Denmark in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Denmark cohort rather than Sweden, uses Europe/Copenhagen instead of Europe/Stockholm, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Gothenburg's. Against Gothenburg, Oslo follows Oslo → Norway in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Norway cohort rather than Sweden, uses Europe/Oslo instead of Europe/Stockholm, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Gothenburg's. Against Gothenburg, Stockholm follows Stockholms Kommun → Stockholm → Sweden in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Sweden cohort, uses the shared Europe/Stockholm identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Gothenburg's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,039 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Gothenburg'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 2711537, the coordinate pair 57.7072 / 11.9668, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2618425 at 228.799 km bind Gothenburg to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Gothenburg's reference point is 57.7072° north and 11.9668° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Stockholm is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Gothenburg's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Gothenburg's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Gothenburg's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Gothenburg, 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
Gothenburg's closest other entries in this atlas are Copenhagen (228.799 km), Oslo (255.112 km), Stockholm (397.401 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-05-07; 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.