1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
Compare this sourced profile of Memphis, 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 Memphis—633,104, America/Chicago, 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 and county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Memphis is GeoNames ID 4641239. Its recorded administrative path is Shelby County → Tennessee → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Memphis 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 2025-07-15; 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, Memphis ranks 882 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 32; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 142. Its 633,104 population value is 0.81 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.78 times the 816,326 regional median. Memphis sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. Memphis'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.
Memphis's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Nashville at 315.832 km with 689,447 recorded people; Louisville at 515.08 km with 624,444 recorded people; Atlanta at 541.845 km with 510,823 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 226.013 km. Compared with Nashville, Memphis's recorded population is 0.92 times as large. Against Memphis, Nashville follows Davidson County → Tennessee → 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/Chicago identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Memphis's. Against Memphis, Louisville follows Jefferson County → Kentucky → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/Kentucky/Louisville instead of America/Chicago, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Memphis's. Against Memphis, Atlanta follows Fulton County → Georgia → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/New_York instead of America/Chicago, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Memphis's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,119 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Memphis'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 4641239, the coordinate pair 35.1495 / 90.0490, country rank 32 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 4644585 at 315.832 km bind Memphis to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Memphis's reference point is 35.1495° north and 90.0490° west. The IANA identifier America/Chicago is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Memphis's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Memphis's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Memphis's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Memphis at 78 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
Memphis's closest other entries in this atlas are Nashville (315.832 km), Louisville (515.08 km), Atlanta (541.845 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-07-15; 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.