1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for New York City—8,804,190, America/New_York, 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: most populous city in the United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind New York City is GeoNames ID 5128581. Its recorded administrative path is New York → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. New York City 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 2026-03-07; 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, New York City ranks 30 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 1; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 3. Its 8,804,190 population value is 11.27 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 10.79 times the 816,326 regional median. New York City falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's United States population cohort. New York City'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.
New York City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Manhattan at 8.387 km with 1,487,536 recorded people; Brooklyn at 8.575 km with 2,736,074 recorded people; Queens at 14.743 km with 2,316,841 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 6.356 km. Compared with Manhattan, New York City's recorded population is 5.92 times as large. Against New York City, Manhattan follows New York County → New York → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below New York City's. Against New York City, Brooklyn follows Kings County → New York → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below New York City's. Against New York City, Queens follows Queens County → New York → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below New York City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 131 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. New York City's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 5128581, the coordinate pair 40.7143 / 74.0060, country rank 1 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5125771 at 8.387 km bind New York City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
New York City's reference point is 40.7143° north and 74.0060° west. The IANA identifier America/New_York is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. New York City's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. New York City's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. New York City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records New York City at 10 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
New York City's closest other entries in this atlas are Manhattan (8.387 km), Brooklyn (8.575 km), Queens (14.743 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-03-07; 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.