Hamburg

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Hamburg is GeoNames ID 2911298. Its recorded administrative path is Hamburg → Germany, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat.

Hamburg 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 2026-05-06; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Hamburg ranks 207 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Germany entries it ranks 2; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 9.

Its 1,973,896 population value is 3.33 times the 593,085 median for the country cohort and 2.97 times the 664,046 regional median. Hamburg falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Germany population cohort.

Hamburg'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

Hamburg's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bremen at 94.839 km with 546,501 recorded people; Hannover at 132.382 km with 515,140 recorded people; Berlin at 255.376 km with 3,426,354 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 160.537 km. Compared with Bremen, Hamburg's recorded population is 3.61 times as large. Against Hamburg, Bremen follows Bremen → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class.

Its recorded population is below Hamburg's. Against Hamburg, Hannover follows Lower Saxony → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Hamburg's. Against Hamburg, Berlin follows State of Berlin → Germany in the source.

Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Hamburg's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 678 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Hamburg'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 2911298, the coordinate pair 53.5507 / 9.9930, country rank 2 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 2944388 at 94.839 km bind Hamburg to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Hamburg's reference point is 53.5507° north and 9.9930° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Berlin is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Hamburg's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label.

Hamburg's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Hamburg's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Hamburg, 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.