1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Italy
Compare this sourced profile of Naples, Italy 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 Naples—909,048, Europe/Rome, 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 Naples is GeoNames ID 3172394. Its recorded administrative path is Napoli → Campania → Italy, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Naples 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 2026-04-17; 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, Naples ranks 609 by recorded population. Inside the 8 selected Italy entries it ranks 3; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 44. Its 909,048 population value is 1.22 times the 747,774 median for the country cohort and 1.37 times the 664,046 regional median. Naples is rank 3 among the 8 selected Italy entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Naples'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.
Naples's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Rome at 186.693 km with 2,318,895 recorded people; Palermo at 313.923 km with 648,260 recorded people; Florence at 409.411 km with 367,150 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 222.718 km. Compared with Rome, Naples's recorded population is 0.39 times as large. Against Naples, Rome follows Citta metropolitana di Roma Capitale → Lazio → Italy in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Naples's. Against Naples, Palermo follows Palermo → Sicily → Italy in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Naples's. Against Naples, Florence follows Province of Florence → Tuscany → Italy in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Naples's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 961 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Naples'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 3172394, the coordinate pair 40.8522 / 14.2681, country rank 3 of 8, and neighbor GeoNames 3169070 at 186.693 km bind Naples to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Naples's reference point is 40.8522° north and 14.2681° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Rome is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Naples's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Naples's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Naples's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Naples at 17 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Naples's closest other entries in this atlas are Rome (186.693 km), Palermo (313.923 km), Florence (409.411 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-17; 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.