1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Czechia
Compare this sourced profile of Prague, Czechia 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 Prague—1,165,581, Europe/Prague, 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 the Czech Republic.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Prague is GeoNames ID 3067696. Its recorded administrative path is Prague → Czechia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Prague 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 2026-02-23; 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, Prague ranks 462 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Czechia entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 27. Its 1,165,581 population value is 1.00 times the 1,165,581 median for the country cohort and 1.76 times the 664,046 regional median. Prague is rank 1 among the 1 selected Czechia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Prague'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.
Prague's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dresden at 117.411 km with 564,904 recorded people; Leipzig at 200.461 km with 504,971 recorded people; Wrocław at 215.979 km with 672,545 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 98.568 km. Compared with Dresden, Prague's recorded population is 2.06 times as large. Against Prague, Dresden follows Saxony → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Germany cohort rather than Czechia, uses Europe/Berlin instead of Europe/Prague, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Prague's. Against Prague, Leipzig follows Saxony → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Germany cohort rather than Czechia, uses Europe/Berlin instead of Europe/Prague, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Prague's. Against Prague, Wrocław follows Wroclaw → Lower Silesia → Poland in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Poland cohort rather than Czechia, uses Europe/Warsaw instead of Europe/Prague, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Prague's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 761 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Prague'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 3067696, the coordinate pair 50.0880 / 14.4208, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2935022 at 117.411 km bind Prague to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Prague's reference point is 50.0880° north and 14.4208° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Prague is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Prague's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Prague's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Prague's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Prague, 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
Prague's closest other entries in this atlas are Dresden (117.411 km), Leipzig (200.461 km), Wrocław (215.979 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-02-23; 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.