1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Moscow, Russia 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 Moscow—10,381,222, Europe/Moscow, 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 and most populous city of Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Moscow is GeoNames ID 524901. Its recorded administrative path is Moscow → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Moscow 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 2025-09-09; 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, Moscow ranks 18 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 1. Its 10,381,222 population value is 16.02 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 15.63 times the 664,046 regional median. Moscow falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Russia population cohort. Moscow'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.
Moscow's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tula at 173.014 km with 482,873 recorded people; Ryazan at 182.166 km with 538,962 recorded people; Yaroslavl at 250.119 km with 608,722 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 77.105 km. Compared with Tula, Moscow's recorded population is 21.50 times as large. Against Moscow, Tula follows Tula Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Moscow's. Against Moscow, Ryazan follows Ryazan Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Moscow's. Against Moscow, Yaroslavl follows Yaroslavl Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Moscow's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 940 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Moscow'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 524901, the coordinate pair 55.7520 / 37.6178, country rank 1 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 480562 at 173.014 km bind Moscow to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Moscow's reference point is 55.7520° north and 37.6178° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Moscow is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Moscow's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Moscow's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Moscow's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Moscow, 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
Moscow's closest other entries in this atlas are Tula (173.014 km), Ryazan (182.166 km), Yaroslavl (250.119 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Moscow, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-09-09; 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.