1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kobe—1,525,152, Asia/Tokyo, 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: capital city of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kobe is GeoNames ID 1859171. Its recorded administrative path is Kobe Shi → Hyogo → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kobe 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 2026-06-01; 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, Kobe ranks 310 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 8; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 179. Its 1,525,152 population value is 1.98 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 1.51 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kobe falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Japan population cohort. Kobe's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kobe's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Nishinomiya at 13.886 km with 485,587 recorded people; Sakai at 28.638 km with 826,161 recorded people; Osaka at 29.081 km with 2,753,862 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 15.195 km. Compared with Nishinomiya, Kobe's recorded population is 3.14 times as large. Against Kobe, Nishinomiya follows Nishinomiya Shi → Hyogo → Japan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kobe's. Against Kobe, Sakai follows Sakai Shi → Osaka → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kobe's. Against Kobe, Osaka follows Osaka-shi → Osaka → Japan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Kobe's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 199 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kobe's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1859171, the coordinate pair 34.6913 / 135.1830, country rank 8 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1855207 at 13.886 km bind Kobe to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kobe's reference point is 34.6913° north and 135.1830° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tokyo is shared by 34 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Kobe's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kobe's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kobe's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kobe, 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
Kobe's closest other entries in this atlas are Nishinomiya (13.886 km), Sakai (28.638 km), Osaka (29.081 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-01; 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.