1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Australia
Compare this sourced profile of Melbourne, Australia 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 Melbourne—5,435,590, Australia/Melbourne, 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: capital city of Victoria, Australia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Melbourne is GeoNames ID 2158177. Its recorded administrative path is Melbourne → Victoria → Australia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Melbourne 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 2026-06-24; 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, Melbourne ranks 52 by recorded population. Inside the 7 selected Australia entries it ranks 2; inside the 8 entries in its broad region it ranks 2. Its 5,435,590 population value is 2.28 times the 2,384,371 median for the country cohort and 2.77 times the 1,965,786 regional median. Melbourne is rank 2 among the 7 selected Australia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Melbourne'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.
Melbourne's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Adelaide at 653.733 km with 1,469,163 recorded people; Sydney at 713.365 km with 5,638,830 recorded people; Newcastle at 822.359 km with 508,437 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 168.626 km. Compared with Adelaide, Melbourne's recorded population is 3.70 times as large. Against Melbourne, Adelaide follows Adelaide → South Australia → Australia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses Australia/Adelaide instead of Australia/Melbourne, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Melbourne's. Against Melbourne, Sydney follows New South Wales → Australia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses Australia/Sydney instead of Australia/Melbourne, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Melbourne's. Against Melbourne, Newcastle follows Newcastle → New South Wales → Australia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses Australia/Sydney instead of Australia/Melbourne, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Melbourne's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,192 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Melbourne'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 2158177, the coordinate pair 37.8140 / 144.9633, country rank 2 of 7, and neighbor GeoNames 2078025 at 653.733 km bind Melbourne to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Melbourne's reference point is 37.8140° south and 144.9633° east. The IANA identifier Australia/Melbourne is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Melbourne's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Melbourne's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Melbourne's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Melbourne, 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
Melbourne's closest other entries in this atlas are Adelaide (653.733 km), Sydney (713.365 km), Newcastle (822.359 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Melbourne, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-24; 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.