1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Germany
Compare this sourced profile of Munich, Germany 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 Munich—1,505,005, Europe/Berlin, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Munich is GeoNames ID 2867714. Its recorded administrative path is Upper Bavaria → Bavaria → Germany, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Munich 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 2026-05-06; 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, Munich ranks 314 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Germany entries it ranks 3; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 18. Its 1,505,005 population value is 2.54 times the 593,085 median for the country cohort and 2.27 times the 664,046 regional median. Munich falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Germany population cohort. Munich'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.
Munich's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Nuremberg at 150.893 km with 515,543 recorded people; Stuttgart at 190.833 km with 612,663 recorded people; Zurich at 241.86 km with 415,367 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 90.967 km. Compared with Nuremberg, Munich's recorded population is 2.92 times as large. Against Munich, Nuremberg follows Regierungsbezirk Mittelfranken → Bavaria → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Munich's. Against Munich, Stuttgart follows Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart → Baden-Wurttemberg → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Munich's. Against Munich, Zurich follows Bezirk Zuerich → Zurich → Switzerland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Switzerland cohort rather than Germany, uses Europe/Zurich instead of Europe/Berlin, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Munich's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 881 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Munich'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 2867714, the coordinate pair 48.1374 / 11.5755, country rank 3 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 2861650 at 150.893 km bind Munich to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Munich's reference point is 48.1374° north and 11.5755° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Berlin is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Munich's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Munich's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Munich's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Munich, 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
Munich's closest other entries in this atlas are Nuremberg (150.893 km), Stuttgart (190.833 km), Zurich (241.86 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-05-06; 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.