1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Joinville—664,500, America/Sao_Paulo, 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: human settlement in Brazil.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Joinville is GeoNames ID 3459712. Its recorded administrative path is Joinville → Santa Catarina → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Joinville 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 2026-07-14; 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, Joinville ranks 832 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 30; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 127. Its 664,500 population value is 0.88 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.81 times the 816,326 regional median. Joinville sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. Joinville'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.
Joinville's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Curitiba at 106.451 km with 1,948,626 recorded people; Florianópolis at 146.662 km with 508,826 recorded people; Sorocaba at 341.62 km with 762,172 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 235.169 km. Compared with Curitiba, Joinville's recorded population is 0.34 times as large. Against Joinville, Curitiba follows Curitiba → Parana → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Joinville's. Against Joinville, Florianópolis follows Florianopolis → Santa Catarina → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Joinville's. Against Joinville, Sorocaba follows Sorocaba → Sao Paulo → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Joinville's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 721 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Joinville'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 3459712, the coordinate pair 26.3044 / 48.8456, country rank 30 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3464975 at 106.451 km bind Joinville to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Joinville's reference point is 26.3044° south and 48.8456° west. The IANA identifier America/Sao_Paulo is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Joinville's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Joinville's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Joinville's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Joinville, 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
Joinville's closest other entries in this atlas are Curitiba (106.451 km), Florianópolis (146.662 km), Sorocaba (341.62 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-14; 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.