1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Australia
Compare this sourced profile of Newcastle, Australia 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 Newcastle—508,437, Australia/Sydney, 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: city in New South Wales, Australia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Newcastle is GeoNames ID 2155472. Its recorded administrative path is Newcastle → New South Wales → Australia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Newcastle 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 2026-04-16; 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, Newcastle ranks 1,126 by recorded population. Inside the 7 selected Australia entries it ranks 7; inside the 8 entries in its broad region it ranks 8. Its 508,437 population value is 0.21 times the 2,384,371 median for the country cohort and 0.26 times the 1,965,786 regional median. Newcastle is rank 7 among the 7 selected Australia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Newcastle's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Newcastle's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sydney at 117.104 km with 5,638,830 recorded people; Gold Coast at 570.457 km with 640,778 recorded people; Brisbane at 619.013 km with 2,780,063 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 501.909 km. Compared with Sydney, Newcastle's recorded population is 0.09 times as large. Against Newcastle, Sydney follows New South Wales → Australia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses the shared Australia/Sydney identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Newcastle's. Against Newcastle, Gold Coast follows Gold Coast → Queensland → Australia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses Australia/Brisbane instead of Australia/Sydney, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Newcastle's. Against Newcastle, Brisbane follows Brisbane → Queensland → Australia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Australia cohort, uses Australia/Brisbane instead of Australia/Sydney, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Newcastle's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 757 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Newcastle'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 2155472, the coordinate pair 32.9295 / 151.7801, country rank 7 of 7, and neighbor GeoNames 2147714 at 117.104 km bind Newcastle to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Newcastle's reference point is 32.9295° south and 151.7801° east. The IANA identifier Australia/Sydney is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Newcastle's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Newcastle's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Newcastle's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Newcastle, 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
Newcastle's closest other entries in this atlas are Sydney (117.104 km), Gold Coast (570.457 km), Brisbane (619.013 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Newcastle, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-16; 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.