1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Poland
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Poznań—536,151, Europe/Warsaw, 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 of the Greater Poland Voivodeship in west-central Poland.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Poznań is GeoNames ID 3088171. Its recorded administrative path is Poznan → Greater Poland → Poland, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Poznań 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 2026-06-21; 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, Poznań ranks 1,050 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Poland entries it ranks 5; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 100. Its 536,151 population value is 0.82 times the 656,218 median for the country cohort and 0.81 times the 664,046 regional median. Poznań is rank 5 among the 6 selected Poland entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Poznań'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.
Poznań's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Wrocław at 145.169 km with 672,545 recorded people; Łódź at 187.651 km with 639,890 recorded people; Berlin at 238.752 km with 3,426,354 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 93.583 km. Compared with Wrocław, Poznań's recorded population is 0.80 times as large. Against Poznań, Wrocław follows Wroclaw → Lower Silesia → Poland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Poland cohort, uses the shared Europe/Warsaw identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Poznań's. Against Poznań, Łódź follows Lodz → Lodz Voivodeship → Poland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Poland cohort, uses the shared Europe/Warsaw identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Poznań's. Against Poznań, Berlin follows State of Berlin → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Germany cohort rather than Poland, uses Europe/Berlin instead of Europe/Warsaw, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Poznań's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 861 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Poznań'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 3088171, the coordinate pair 52.4069 / 16.9299, country rank 5 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 3081368 at 145.169 km bind Poznań to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Poznań's reference point is 52.4069° north and 16.9299° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Warsaw is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Poznań's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Poznań's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Poznań's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Poznań, 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
Poznań's closest other entries in this atlas are Wrocław (145.169 km), Łódź (187.651 km), Berlin (238.752 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-21; 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.