1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Osaka, Japan 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 Osaka—2,753,862, Asia/Tokyo, 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: designated city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Osaka is GeoNames ID 1853909. Its recorded administrative path is Osaka-shi → Osaka → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Osaka 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 2024-09-05; 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, Osaka ranks 132 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 3; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 85. Its 2,753,862 population value is 3.58 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 2.73 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Osaka falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Japan population cohort. Osaka'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.
Osaka's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Higashiosaka at 8.104 km with 493,940 recorded people; Sakai at 12.809 km with 826,161 recorded people; Nishinomiya at 15.646 km with 485,587 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 7.542 km. Compared with Higashiosaka, Osaka's recorded population is 5.58 times as large. Against Osaka, Higashiosaka follows Higashiosaka Shi → Osaka → 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 Osaka's. Against Osaka, Sakai follows Sakai 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 Osaka's. Against Osaka, Nishinomiya follows Nishinomiya Shi → Hyogo → Japan in the source. Its point has higher 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 Osaka's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 126 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Osaka'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 1853909, the coordinate pair 34.6938 / 135.5011, country rank 3 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1862752 at 8.104 km bind Osaka to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Osaka's reference point is 34.6938° north and 135.5011° 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. Osaka's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Osaka's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Osaka's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Osaka, 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
Osaka's closest other entries in this atlas are Higashiosaka (8.104 km), Sakai (12.809 km), Nishinomiya (15.646 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-09-05; 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.