1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Poland
Compare this sourced profile of Kraków, Poland 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 Kraków—816,614, Europe/Warsaw, 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 Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kraków is GeoNames ID 3094802. Its recorded administrative path is Krakow → Lesser Poland → Poland, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kraków 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 2026-06-21; 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, Kraków ranks 683 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Poland entries it ranks 2; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 52. Its 816,614 population value is 1.24 times the 656,218 median for the country cohort and 1.23 times the 664,046 regional median. Kraków is rank 2 among the 6 selected Poland entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Kraków'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.
Kraków's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Łódź at 192.795 km with 639,890 recorded people; Wrocław at 235.61 km with 672,545 recorded people; Warsaw at 252.497 km with 1,702,139 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 59.702 km. Compared with Łódź, Kraków's recorded population is 1.28 times as large. Against Kraków, Łódź follows Lodz → Lodz Voivodeship → Poland in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Poland cohort, uses the shared Europe/Warsaw identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kraków's. Against Kraków, Wrocław follows Wroclaw → Lower Silesia → Poland in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Poland cohort, uses the shared Europe/Warsaw identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kraków's. Against Kraków, Warsaw follows Warszawa → Mazovia → Poland in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Poland cohort, uses the shared Europe/Warsaw identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Kraków's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 972 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kraków'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 3094802, the coordinate pair 50.0614 / 19.9366, country rank 2 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 3093133 at 192.795 km bind Kraków to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kraków's reference point is 50.0614° north and 19.9366° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Warsaw is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Kraków's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kraków's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kraków's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kraków, 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
Kraków's closest other entries in this atlas are Łódź (192.795 km), Wrocław (235.61 km), Warsaw (252.497 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 2026-06-21; 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.