1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United Kingdom
Compare this sourced profile of Manchester, United Kingdom 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 Manchester—568,996, Europe/London, 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: city in Greater Manchester, England.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Manchester is GeoNames ID 2643123. Its recorded administrative path is Manchester → England → United Kingdom, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Manchester 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 2026-03-23; 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, Manchester ranks 979 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected United Kingdom entries it ranks 4; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 88. Its 568,996 population value is 1.02 times the 556,500 median for the country cohort and 0.86 times the 664,046 regional median. Manchester is rank 4 among the 9 selected United Kingdom entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Manchester'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.
Manchester's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Liverpool at 49.661 km with 496,770 recorded people; Sheffield at 52.26 km with 556,500 recorded people; Leeds at 57.424 km with 536,280 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 7.763 km. Compared with Liverpool, Manchester's recorded population is 1.15 times as large. Against Manchester, Liverpool follows Liverpool → England → United Kingdom in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Kingdom cohort, uses the shared Europe/London identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Manchester's. Against Manchester, Sheffield follows Sheffield → England → United Kingdom in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Kingdom cohort, uses the shared Europe/London identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Manchester's. Against Manchester, Leeds follows City and Borough of Leeds → England → United Kingdom in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Kingdom cohort, uses the shared Europe/London identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Manchester's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 434 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Manchester's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 2643123, the coordinate pair 53.4810 / 2.2374, country rank 4 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 2644210 at 49.661 km bind Manchester to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Manchester's reference point is 53.4810° north and 2.2374° west. The IANA identifier Europe/London is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Manchester's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Manchester's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Manchester's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Manchester, 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
Manchester's closest other entries in this atlas are Liverpool (49.661 km), Sheffield (52.26 km), Leeds (57.424 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-03-23; 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.