1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Canada
Compare this sourced profile of Ottawa, Canada 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 Ottawa—1,017,449, America/Toronto, 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 Canada.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ottawa is GeoNames ID 6094817. Its recorded administrative path is Ottawa → Ontario → Canada, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Ottawa 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 2025-08-04; 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, Ottawa ranks 539 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Canada entries it ranks 4; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 71. Its 1,017,449 population value is 1.39 times the 733,784 median for the country cohort and 1.25 times the 816,326 regional median. Ottawa sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Canada population cohort. Ottawa's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Ottawa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Montreal at 164.942 km with 1,762,949 recorded people; Toronto at 349.076 km with 2,794,356 recorded people; Mississauga at 374.328 km with 717,961 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 209.386 km. Compared with Montreal, Ottawa's recorded population is 0.58 times as large. Against Ottawa, Montreal follows Montreal → Quebec → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Toronto identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Ottawa's. Against Ottawa, Toronto follows Ontario → Canada in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Toronto identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Ottawa's. Against Ottawa, Mississauga follows Peel → Ontario → Canada in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Toronto identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Ottawa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 913 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ottawa'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 6094817, the coordinate pair 45.4112 / 75.6981, country rank 4 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 6077243 at 164.942 km bind Ottawa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ottawa's reference point is 45.4112° north and 75.6981° west. The IANA identifier America/Toronto is shared by 7 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Ottawa's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ottawa's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ottawa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ottawa, 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
Ottawa's closest other entries in this atlas are Montreal (164.942 km), Toronto (349.076 km), Mississauga (374.328 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 2025-08-04; 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.