1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
Compare this sourced profile of Nashville, United States 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 Nashville—689,447, America/Chicago, 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 city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and seat of Davidson County.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Nashville is GeoNames ID 4644585. Its recorded administrative path is Davidson County → Tennessee → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Nashville 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, Nashville ranks 797 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 25; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 122. Its 689,447 population value is 0.88 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.84 times the 816,326 regional median. Nashville sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. Nashville'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.
Nashville's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Louisville at 249.321 km with 624,444 recorded people; Memphis at 315.832 km with 633,104 recorded people; Atlanta at 346.268 km with 510,823 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 96.947 km. Compared with Louisville, Nashville's recorded population is 1.10 times as large. Against Nashville, Louisville follows Jefferson County → Kentucky → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/Kentucky/Louisville instead of America/Chicago, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Nashville's. Against Nashville, Memphis follows Shelby County → Tennessee → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Chicago identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Nashville's. Against Nashville, Atlanta follows Fulton County → Georgia → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/New_York instead of America/Chicago, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Nashville's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,066 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nashville'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 4644585, the coordinate pair 36.1659 / 86.7844, country rank 25 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 4299276 at 249.321 km bind Nashville to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Nashville's reference point is 36.1659° north and 86.7844° west. The IANA identifier America/Chicago is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Nashville's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Nashville's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nashville's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Nashville at 170 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
Nashville's closest other entries in this atlas are Louisville (249.321 km), Memphis (315.832 km), Atlanta (346.268 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.