1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Canada
Compare this sourced profile of Hamilton, Canada 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 Hamilton—569,353, America/Toronto, 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 Ontario, Canada.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Hamilton is GeoNames ID 5969782. Its recorded administrative path is Hamilton → Ontario → Canada, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Hamilton 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 2026-08-02; 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, Hamilton ranks 977 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Canada entries it ranks 10; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 158. Its 569,353 population value is 0.78 times the 733,784 median for the country cohort and 0.70 times the 816,326 regional median. Hamilton sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Canada entries. Hamilton's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Hamilton's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Mississauga at 39.692 km with 717,961 recorded people; Brampton at 48.647 km with 656,480 recorded people; Toronto at 62.44 km with 2,794,356 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 22.748 km. Compared with Mississauga, Hamilton's recorded population is 0.79 times as large. Against Hamilton, Mississauga follows Peel → Ontario → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Toronto identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Hamilton's. Against Hamilton, Brampton follows Peel → Ontario → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Toronto identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Hamilton's. Against Hamilton, Toronto follows Ontario → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Toronto identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Hamilton's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 361 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Hamilton'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 5969782, the coordinate pair 43.2501 / 79.8496, country rank 10 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 6075357 at 39.692 km bind Hamilton to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Hamilton's reference point is 43.2501° north and 79.8496° west. The IANA identifier America/Toronto is shared by 7 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Hamilton's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Hamilton's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Hamilton's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Hamilton, 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
Hamilton's closest other entries in this atlas are Mississauga (39.692 km), Brampton (48.647 km), Toronto (62.44 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Hamilton, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-08-02; 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.