1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Canada
Compare this sourced profile of Quebec City, 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 Quebec City—531,902, 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 the province of Quebec, Canada.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Quebec City is GeoNames ID 6325494. Its recorded administrative path is Capitale-Nationale → Quebec → Canada, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Québec 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 2026-04-13; 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, Quebec City ranks 1,062 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Canada entries it ranks 12; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 171. Its 531,902 population value is 0.72 times the 733,784 median for the country cohort and 0.65 times the 816,326 regional median. Quebec City sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Canada entries. Quebec City's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Quebec City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Montreal at 233.255 km with 1,762,949 recorded people; Ottawa at 379.039 km with 1,017,449 recorded people; Boston at 495.397 km with 653,833 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 262.142 km. Compared with Montreal, Quebec City's recorded population is 0.30 times as large. Against Quebec City, Montreal follows Montreal → Quebec → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Quebec City's. Against Quebec City, Ottawa follows Ottawa → 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 capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Quebec City's. Against Quebec City, Boston follows Suffolk County → Massachusetts → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Canada, uses America/New_York instead of America/Toronto, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Quebec City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,044 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Quebec City'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 6325494, the coordinate pair 46.8123 / 71.2145, country rank 12 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 6077243 at 233.255 km bind Quebec City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Quebec City's reference point is 46.8123° north and 71.2145° west. The IANA identifier America/Toronto is shared by 7 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Quebec City's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Quebec City's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Quebec City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Quebec City, 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
Quebec City's closest other entries in this atlas are Montreal (233.255 km), Ottawa (379.039 km), Boston (495.397 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.