1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Norway
Compare this sourced profile of Oslo, Norway 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 Oslo—1,082,575, Europe/Oslo, 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 Norway.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Oslo is GeoNames ID 3143244. Its recorded administrative path is Oslo → Norway, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Oslo 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 2024-08-27; 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, Oslo ranks 496 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Norway entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 35. Its 1,082,575 population value is 1.00 times the 1,082,575 median for the country cohort and 1.63 times the 664,046 regional median. Oslo is rank 1 among the 1 selected Norway entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Oslo'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.
Oslo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Gothenburg at 255.112 km with 608,462 recorded people; Stockholm at 416.628 km with 1,515,017 recorded people; Copenhagen at 483.243 km with 1,153,615 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 228.131 km. Compared with Gothenburg, Oslo's recorded population is 1.78 times as large. Against Oslo, Gothenburg follows Goeteborgs stad → Vaestra Goetaland → Sweden in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Sweden cohort rather than Norway, uses Europe/Stockholm instead of Europe/Oslo, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Oslo's. Against Oslo, Stockholm follows Stockholms Kommun → Stockholm → Sweden in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Sweden cohort rather than Norway, uses Europe/Stockholm instead of Europe/Oslo, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Oslo's. Against Oslo, Copenhagen follows Kobenhavn → Capital Region → Denmark in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Denmark cohort rather than Norway, uses Europe/Copenhagen instead of Europe/Oslo, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Oslo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,075 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Oslo'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 3143244, the coordinate pair 59.9127 / 10.7461, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2711537 at 255.112 km bind Oslo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Oslo's reference point is 59.9127° north and 10.7461° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Oslo is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Oslo's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Oslo's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Oslo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Oslo, 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
Oslo's closest other entries in this atlas are Gothenburg (255.112 km), Stockholm (416.628 km), Copenhagen (483.243 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2024-08-27; 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.