1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Canada
Compare this sourced profile of Montreal, 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 Montreal—1,762,949, 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: largest city in Quebec, Canada.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Montreal is GeoNames ID 6077243. Its recorded administrative path is Montreal → Quebec → Canada, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Montréal 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 2026-02-23; 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, Montreal ranks 247 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Canada entries it ranks 2; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 32. Its 1,762,949 population value is 2.40 times the 733,784 median for the country cohort and 2.16 times the 816,326 regional median. Montreal falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Canada population cohort. Montreal'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.
Montreal's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ottawa at 164.942 km with 1,017,449 recorded people; Quebec City at 233.255 km with 531,902 recorded people; Boston at 404.543 km with 653,833 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 239.601 km. Compared with Ottawa, Montreal's recorded population is 1.73 times as large. Against Montreal, Ottawa follows Ottawa → 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 capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Montreal's. Against Montreal, Quebec City follows Capitale-Nationale → Quebec → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Montreal's. Against Montreal, Boston follows Suffolk County → Massachusetts → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Canada, uses America/New_York instead of America/Toronto, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Montreal's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 913 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Montreal'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 6077243, the coordinate pair 45.5088 / 73.5878, country rank 2 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 6094817 at 164.942 km bind Montreal to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Montreal's reference point is 45.5088° north and 73.5878° west. The IANA identifier America/Toronto is shared by 7 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Montreal's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Montreal's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Montreal's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Montreal, 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
Montreal's closest other entries in this atlas are Ottawa (164.942 km), Quebec City (233.255 km), Boston (404.543 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-02-23; 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.