1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Italy
Compare this sourced profile of Milan, Italy 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 Milan—1,371,498, Europe/Rome, 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: Italian commune and capital city of Lombardy.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Milan is GeoNames ID 3173435. Its recorded administrative path is Citta metropolitana di Milano → Lombardy → Italy, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Milan 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 2026-04-01; 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, Milan ranks 365 by recorded population. Inside the 8 selected Italy entries it ranks 2; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 21. Its 1,371,498 population value is 1.83 times the 747,774 median for the country cohort and 2.07 times the 664,046 regional median. Milan is rank 2 among the 8 selected Italy entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Milan'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.
Milan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Genoa at 119.379 km with 580,097 recorded people; Turin at 125.484 km with 847,287 recorded people; Zurich at 217.142 km with 415,367 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 97.763 km. Compared with Genoa, Milan's recorded population is 2.36 times as large. Against Milan, Genoa follows Provincia di Genova → Liguria → Italy in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Milan's. Against Milan, Turin follows Torino → Piedmont → Italy in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Milan's. Against Milan, Zurich follows Bezirk Zuerich → Zurich → Switzerland in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Switzerland cohort rather than Italy, uses Europe/Zurich instead of Europe/Rome, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Milan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 772 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Milan'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 3173435, the coordinate pair 45.4643 / 9.1895, country rank 2 of 8, and neighbor GeoNames 3176219 at 119.379 km bind Milan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Milan's reference point is 45.4643° north and 9.1895° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Rome is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Milan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Milan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Milan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Milan at 122 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
Milan's closest other entries in this atlas are Genoa (119.379 km), Turin (125.484 km), Zurich (217.142 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-01; 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.