Source identity and administrative path
The source row behind Nagoya is GeoNames ID 1856057. Its recorded administrative path is Nagoya-shi → Aichi → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat.
Nagoya 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 2026-04-29; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Population position inside fixed cohorts
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Nagoya ranks 167 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 4; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 106.
Its 2,332,176 population value is 3.03 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 2.31 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Nagoya falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Japan population cohort.
Nagoya'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.
Nearest-reference pattern
Nagoya's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Hamamatsu at 92.453 km with 791,707 recorded people; Kyoto at 106.357 km with 1,463,723 recorded people; Higashiosaka at 133.517 km with 493,940 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 41.064 km. Compared with Hamamatsu, Nagoya's recorded population is 2.95 times as large. Against Nagoya, Hamamatsu follows Hamamatsu Shi → Shizuoka → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat.
Its recorded population is below Nagoya's. Against Nagoya, Kyoto follows Kyoto Shi → Kyoto → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Nagoya's. Against Nagoya, Higashiosaka follows Higashiosaka Shi → Osaka → Japan in the source.
Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Nagoya's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 663 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nagoya'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 1856057, the coordinate pair 35.1815 / 136.9064, country rank 4 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1863289 at 92.453 km bind Nagoya to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts
Nagoya's reference point is 35.1815° north and 136.9064° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tokyo is shared by 34 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Nagoya's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.
Nagoya's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nagoya's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nagoya, 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.
Full field record
Fixed GeoNames snapshot · not live travel data- Record keys
- NagoyaGeoNames 1856057Q11751
- Name scope
- Nagoya1 atlas row share this source labelqualifier not required
- Administrative chain
- Nagoya-shiAichiJapan
- Coordinate signature
- 35.1815° N136.9064° E
- Population snapshot
- 2,332,176atlas rank 167 of 1,206
- Country comparison
- Japan rank 4 of 34median 769,894ratio 3.03×
- Regional comparison
- Asia rank 106 of 632median 1,008,426ratio 2.31×
- Time-zone cohort
- Asia/Tokyo34 of 1,206 atlas rows
- Place-class cohort
- PPLA first-order administrative seat429 of 1,206 rows
- Elevation field
- Nagoyamissing in GeoNames
- Nearest reference
- Hamamatsu92.453 kmpopulation 791,707atlas rank 701
- Second reference
- Kyoto106.357 kmpopulation 1,463,723atlas rank 331
- Third reference
- Higashiosaka133.517 kmpopulation 493,940atlas rank 1,160
- Neighbour geometry
- Nagoyanearest-distance rank 663 of 1,206three-reference spread 41.064 km
- Source dates
- Nagoya row updated 2026-04-29atlas dataset checked 2026-08-04