1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Germany
Compare this sourced profile of Hannover, Germany 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 Hannover—515,140, Europe/Berlin, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Hannover is GeoNames ID 2910831. Its recorded administrative path is Lower Saxony → Germany, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Hannover 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 2026-04-13; 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, Hannover ranks 1,107 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Germany entries it ranks 13; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 107. Its 515,140 population value is 0.87 times the 593,085 median for the country cohort and 0.78 times the 664,046 regional median. Hannover sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Germany entries. Hannover'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.
Hannover's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bremen at 100.199 km with 546,501 recorded people; Hamburg at 132.382 km with 1,973,896 recorded people; Dortmund at 182.204 km with 588,462 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 82.005 km. Compared with Bremen, Hannover's recorded population is 0.94 times as large. Against Hannover, Bremen follows Bremen → Germany in the source. Its point has higher 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 above Hannover's. Against Hannover, Hamburg follows Hamburg → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher 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 above Hannover's. Against Hannover, Dortmund follows Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg → North Rhine-Westphalia → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Hannover's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 700 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Hannover'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 2910831, the coordinate pair 52.3705 / 9.7332, country rank 13 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 2944388 at 100.199 km bind Hannover to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Hannover's reference point is 52.3705° north and 9.7332° 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. Hannover's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Hannover's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Hannover's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Hannover, 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
Hannover's closest other entries in this atlas are Bremen (100.199 km), Hamburg (132.382 km), Dortmund (182.204 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.