1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of Guadalajara, Mexico 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 Guadalajara—1,385,629, America/Mexico_City, 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: capital of the State of Jalisco, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Guadalajara is GeoNames ID 4005539. Its recorded administrative path is Guadalajara → Jalisco → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Guadalajara 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 2026-04-14; 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, Guadalajara ranks 361 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 10; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 51. Its 1,385,629 population value is 1.71 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 1.70 times the 816,326 regional median. Guadalajara falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Mexico population cohort. Guadalajara's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Guadalajara's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zapopan at 6.395 km with 1,476,491 recorded people; Tlaquepaque at 6.916 km with 650,123 recorded people; Aguascalientes City at 173.48 km with 722,250 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 167.085 km. Compared with Zapopan, Guadalajara's recorded population is 0.94 times as large. Against Guadalajara, Zapopan follows Zapopan → Jalisco → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Guadalajara's. Against Guadalajara, Tlaquepaque follows San Pedro Tlaquepaque → Jalisco → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Guadalajara's. Against Guadalajara, Aguascalientes City follows Aguascalientes → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Guadalajara's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 88 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Guadalajara's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth 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 4005539, the coordinate pair 20.6774 / 103.3475, country rank 10 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 3979770 at 6.395 km bind Guadalajara to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Guadalajara's reference point is 20.6774° north and 103.3475° west. The IANA identifier America/Mexico_City is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Guadalajara's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Guadalajara's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Guadalajara's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Guadalajara, 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
Guadalajara's closest other entries in this atlas are Zapopan (6.395 km), Tlaquepaque (6.916 km), Aguascalientes City (173.48 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.