Medellín

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Medellín is GeoNames ID 3674962. Its recorded administrative path is Medellin → Antioquia → Colombia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat.

Medellín 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 2026-04-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Medellín ranks 200 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Colombia entries it ranks 3; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 27.

Its 1,999,979 population value is 2.79 times the 716,066 median for the country cohort and 2.45 times the 816,326 regional median. Medellín falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Colombia population cohort.

Medellín'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

Medellín's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ibagué at 205.279 km with 529,635 recorded people; Soacha at 238.306 km with 655,025 recorded people; Bogotá at 245.475 km with 7,674,366 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 40.196 km. Compared with Ibagué, Medellín's recorded population is 3.78 times as large. Against Medellín, Ibagué follows Ibague → Tolima Department → Colombia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Colombia cohort, uses the shared America/Bogota identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class.

Its recorded population is below Medellín's. Against Medellín, Soacha follows Soacha → Cundinamarca → Colombia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Colombia cohort, uses the shared America/Bogota identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Medellín's. Against Medellín, Bogotá follows Bogota D.C. → Colombia in the source.

Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Colombia cohort, uses the shared America/Bogota identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Medellín's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,011 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Medellín'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 3674962, the coordinate pair 6.2450 / 75.5715, country rank 3 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 3680656 at 205.279 km bind Medellín to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Medellín's reference point is 6.2450° north and 75.5715° west. The IANA identifier America/Bogota is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Medellín's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.

Medellín's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Medellín's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Medellín at 1,405 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.