1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of Morelia, Mexico 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 Morelia—743,275, America/Mexico_City, 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 of the State of Michoacán, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Morelia is GeoNames ID 3995402. Its recorded administrative path is Morelia → Michoacan → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Morelia 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 2026-04-14; 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, Morelia ranks 739 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 21; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 109. Its 743,275 population value is 0.92 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 0.91 times the 816,326 regional median. Morelia sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Mexico entries. Morelia'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.
Morelia's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Santiago de Querétaro at 129.017 km with 1,594,212 recorded people; León de Los Aldama at 166.321 km with 1,579,803 recorded people; Toluca de Lerdo at 166.938 km with 489,333 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 37.921 km. Compared with Santiago de Querétaro, Morelia's recorded population is 0.47 times as large. Against Morelia, Santiago de Querétaro follows Queretaro → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Morelia's. Against Morelia, León de Los Aldama follows Leon → Guanajuato → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Morelia's. Against Morelia, Toluca de Lerdo follows Toluca → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Morelia's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 817 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Morelia'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 3995402, the coordinate pair 19.7008 / 101.1844, country rank 21 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 3991164 at 129.017 km bind Morelia to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Morelia's reference point is 19.7008° north and 101.1844° west. The IANA identifier America/Mexico_City is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Morelia's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Morelia's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Morelia's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Morelia, 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
Morelia's closest other entries in this atlas are Santiago de Querétaro (129.017 km), León de Los Aldama (166.321 km), Toluca de Lerdo (166.938 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.