1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
Compare this sourced profile of Manhattan, United States 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 Manhattan—1,487,536, America/New_York, 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: borough of New York City, New York, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Manhattan is GeoNames ID 5125771. Its recorded administrative path is New York County → New York → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Manhattan 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 2021-08-20; 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, Manhattan ranks 320 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 10; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 47. Its 1,487,536 population value is 1.90 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 1.82 times the 816,326 regional median. Manhattan falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's United States population cohort. Manhattan's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Manhattan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are New York City at 8.387 km with 8,804,190 recorded people; The Bronx at 11.186 km with 1,385,108 recorded people; Brooklyn at 14.892 km with 2,736,074 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 6.505 km. Compared with New York City, Manhattan's recorded population is 0.17 times as large. Against Manhattan, New York City follows New York → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Manhattan's. Against Manhattan, The Bronx follows Bronx County → New York → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Manhattan's. Against Manhattan, Brooklyn follows Kings County → New York → 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/New_York identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Manhattan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 131 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Manhattan's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter 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 5125771, the coordinate pair 40.7834 / 73.9663, country rank 10 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5128581 at 8.387 km bind Manhattan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Manhattan's reference point is 40.7834° north and 73.9663° west. The IANA identifier America/New_York is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Manhattan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Manhattan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Manhattan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Manhattan at 35 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
Manhattan's closest other entries in this atlas are New York City (8.387 km), The Bronx (11.186 km), Brooklyn (14.892 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-08-20; 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.