1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Canada
Compare this sourced profile of Mississauga, Canada 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 Mississauga—717,961, America/Toronto, 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 Ontario, Canada.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Mississauga is GeoNames ID 6075357. Its recorded administrative path is Peel → Ontario → Canada, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Mississauga 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 2026-08-02; 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, Mississauga ranks 772 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Canada entries it ranks 7; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 116. Its 717,961 population value is 0.98 times the 733,784 median for the country cohort and 0.88 times the 816,326 regional median. Mississauga sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Canada entries. Mississauga'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.
Mississauga's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Brampton at 14.514 km with 656,480 recorded people; Toronto at 25.252 km with 2,794,356 recorded people; Hamilton at 39.692 km with 569,353 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 25.178 km. Compared with Brampton, Mississauga's recorded population is 1.09 times as large. Against Mississauga, Brampton follows Peel → Ontario → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Toronto identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Mississauga's. Against Mississauga, Toronto follows Ontario → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Toronto identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Mississauga's. Against Mississauga, Hamilton follows Hamilton → Ontario → Canada in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Toronto identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Mississauga's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 205 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Mississauga'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 6075357, the coordinate pair 43.5789 / 79.6583, country rank 7 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 5907364 at 14.514 km bind Mississauga to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Mississauga's reference point is 43.5789° north and 79.6583° west. The IANA identifier America/Toronto is shared by 7 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Mississauga's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Mississauga's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Mississauga's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Mississauga, 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
Mississauga's closest other entries in this atlas are Brampton (14.514 km), Toronto (25.252 km), Hamilton (39.692 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-08-02; 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.