1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Germany
Compare this sourced profile of Leipzig, Germany 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 Leipzig—504,971, Europe/Berlin, 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: largest city in Saxony, Germany.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Leipzig is GeoNames ID 2879139. Its recorded administrative path is Saxony → Germany, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Leipzig 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 2026-02-23; 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, Leipzig ranks 1,134 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Germany entries it ranks 14; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 113. Its 504,971 population value is 0.85 times the 593,085 median for the country cohort and 0.76 times the 664,046 regional median. Leipzig sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Germany entries. Leipzig'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.
Leipzig's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dresden at 100.521 km with 564,904 recorded people; Berlin at 149.769 km with 3,426,354 recorded people; Prague at 200.461 km with 1,165,581 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 99.94 km. Compared with Dresden, Leipzig's recorded population is 0.89 times as large. Against Leipzig, Dresden follows Saxony → Germany in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Leipzig's. Against Leipzig, Berlin follows State of Berlin → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Leipzig's. Against Leipzig, Prague follows Prague → Czechia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Czechia cohort rather than Germany, uses Europe/Prague instead of Europe/Berlin, and carries capital of a political entity rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Leipzig's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 702 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Leipzig'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 2879139, the coordinate pair 51.3396 / 12.3713, country rank 14 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 2935022 at 100.521 km bind Leipzig to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Leipzig's reference point is 51.3396° north and 12.3713° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Berlin is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Leipzig's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Leipzig's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Leipzig's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Leipzig, 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
Leipzig's closest other entries in this atlas are Dresden (100.521 km), Berlin (149.769 km), Prague (200.461 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-02-23; 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.