1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Kotō, Japan 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 Kotō—543,730, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kotō is GeoNames ID 11209896. Its recorded administrative path is Kumamoto Shi → Kumamoto → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Kotō 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 2025-06-03; 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, Kotō ranks 1,030 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 27; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 548. Its 543,730 population value is 0.71 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 0.54 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kotō sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Japan entries. Kotō's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kotō's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kumamoto at 5.857 km with 738,907 recorded people; Fukuoka at 96.325 km with 1,612,392 recorded people; Kitakyūshū at 119.738 km with 940,978 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 113.881 km. Compared with Kumamoto, Kotō's recorded population is 0.74 times as large. Against Kotō, Kumamoto follows Kumamoto Shi → Kumamoto → Japan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Kotō's. Against Kotō, Fukuoka follows Fukuoka-shi → Fukuoka → Japan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Kotō's. Against Kotō, Kitakyūshū follows Kitakyushu-shi → Fukuoka → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is above Kotō's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 72 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kotō's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth 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 11209896, the coordinate pair 32.7786 / 130.7454, country rank 27 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1858421 at 5.857 km bind Kotō to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kotō's reference point is 32.7786° north and 130.7454° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tokyo is shared by 34 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Kotō's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kotō's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kotō's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kotō, 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
Kotō's closest other entries in this atlas are Kumamoto (5.857 km), Fukuoka (96.325 km), Kitakyūshū (119.738 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-03; 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.