1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
Compare this sourced profile of Houston, United States 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 Houston—2,314,157, America/Chicago, 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: seat of Harris County, and largest city in State of Texas, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Houston is GeoNames ID 4699066. Its recorded administrative path is Harris County → Texas → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Houston 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 2025-05-08; 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, Houston ranks 170 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 6; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 21. Its 2,314,157 population value is 2.96 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 2.83 times the 816,326 regional median. Houston falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's United States population cohort. Houston'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.
Houston's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Austin at 235.878 km with 974,447 recorded people; San Antonio at 305.003 km with 1,526,656 recorded people; Dallas at 362.711 km with 1,326,087 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 126.833 km. Compared with Austin, Houston's recorded population is 2.37 times as large. Against Houston, Austin follows Travis County → Texas → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Chicago identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Houston's. Against Houston, San Antonio follows Bexar County → Texas → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Chicago identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Houston's. Against Houston, Dallas follows Dallas County → Texas → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Chicago identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Houston's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,046 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Houston'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 4699066, the coordinate pair 29.7633 / 95.3633, country rank 6 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 4671654 at 235.878 km bind Houston to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Houston's reference point is 29.7633° north and 95.3633° west. The IANA identifier America/Chicago is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Houston's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Houston's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Houston's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Houston at 12 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Houston's closest other entries in this atlas are Austin (235.878 km), San Antonio (305.003 km), Dallas (362.711 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-08; 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.