1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Los Angeles—3,820,914, America/Los_Angeles, 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: seat of Los Angeles County, and largest city in California, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Los Angeles is GeoNames ID 5368361. Its recorded administrative path is Los Angeles County → California → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Los Angeles 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 2025-07-22; 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, Los Angeles ranks 89 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 2; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 8. Its 3,820,914 population value is 4.89 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 4.68 times the 816,326 regional median. Los Angeles falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's United States population cohort. Los Angeles's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Los Angeles's three nearest other atlas coordinates are San Diego at 179.223 km with 1,404,452 recorded people; Tijuana at 207.298 km with 1,922,523 recorded people; Mexicali at 303.661 km with 1,032,686 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 124.438 km. Compared with San Diego, Los Angeles's recorded population is 2.72 times as large. Against Los Angeles, San Diego follows San Diego County → California → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Los_Angeles identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Los Angeles's. Against Los Angeles, Tijuana follows Tijuana → Baja California → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Mexico cohort rather than United States, uses America/Tijuana instead of America/Los_Angeles, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Los Angeles's. Against Los Angeles, Mexicali follows Mexicali → Baja California → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Mexico cohort rather than United States, uses America/Tijuana instead of America/Los_Angeles, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Los Angeles's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 950 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Los Angeles'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 5368361, the coordinate pair 34.0522 / 118.2437, country rank 2 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5391811 at 179.223 km bind Los Angeles to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Los Angeles's reference point is 34.0522° north and 118.2437° west. The IANA identifier America/Los_Angeles is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Los Angeles's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Los Angeles's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Los Angeles's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Los Angeles at 89 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Los Angeles's closest other entries in this atlas are San Diego (179.223 km), Tijuana (207.298 km), Mexicali (303.661 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-07-22; 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.