1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Italy
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Palermo—648,260, Europe/Rome, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Palermo is GeoNames ID 2523920. Its recorded administrative path is Palermo → Sicily → Italy, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Palermo 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 2023-11-21; 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, Palermo ranks 856 by recorded population. Inside the 8 selected Italy entries it ranks 5; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 67. Its 648,260 population value is 0.87 times the 747,774 median for the country cohort and 0.98 times the 664,046 regional median. Palermo is rank 5 among the 8 selected Italy entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Palermo'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.
Palermo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Naples at 313.923 km with 909,048 recorded people; Tunis at 316.942 km with 693,210 recorded people; Rome at 426.021 km with 2,318,895 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 112.098 km. Compared with Naples, Palermo's recorded population is 0.71 times as large. Against Palermo, Naples follows Napoli → Campania → Italy in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Palermo's. Against Palermo, Tunis follows Tunis Governorate → Tunisia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Tunisia cohort rather than Italy, uses Africa/Tunis instead of Europe/Rome, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Palermo's. Against Palermo, Rome follows Citta metropolitana di Roma Capitale → Lazio → Italy in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Palermo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,118 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Palermo'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 2523920, the coordinate pair 38.1166 / 13.3636, country rank 5 of 8, and neighbor GeoNames 3172394 at 313.923 km bind Palermo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Palermo's reference point is 38.1166° north and 13.3636° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Rome is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Palermo's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Palermo's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Palermo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Palermo at 14 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
Palermo's closest other entries in this atlas are Naples (313.923 km), Tunis (316.942 km), Rome (426.021 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-11-21; 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.