1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
Compare this sourced profile of Portland, United States 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 Portland—652,503, America/Los_Angeles, 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: seat of Multnomah County, and largest city in state of Oregon, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Portland is GeoNames ID 5746545. Its recorded administrative path is Multnomah County → Oregon → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Portland 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 2025-06-25; 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, Portland ranks 851 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 29; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 135. Its 652,503 population value is 0.84 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.80 times the 816,326 regional median. Portland sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. Portland'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.
Portland's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Seattle at 233.081 km with 780,995 recorded people; Surrey at 398.558 km with 568,322 recorded people; Vancouver at 415.674 km with 662,248 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 182.593 km. Compared with Seattle, Portland's recorded population is 0.84 times as large. Against Portland, Seattle follows King County → Washington → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Los_Angeles identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Portland's. Against Portland, Surrey follows Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Canada cohort rather than United States, uses America/Vancouver instead of America/Los_Angeles, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Portland's. Against Portland, Vancouver follows Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Canada cohort rather than United States, uses America/Vancouver instead of America/Los_Angeles, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Portland's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,043 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Portland'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 5746545, the coordinate pair 45.5235 / 122.6762, country rank 29 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5809844 at 233.081 km bind Portland to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Portland's reference point is 45.5235° north and 122.6762° west. The IANA identifier America/Los_Angeles is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Portland's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Portland's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Portland's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Portland at 12 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
Portland's closest other entries in this atlas are Seattle (233.081 km), Surrey (398.558 km), Vancouver (415.674 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Portland, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-25; 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.