1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
Compare this sourced profile of Queens, 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 Queens—2,316,841, America/New_York, 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: borough in New York City, New York, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Queens is GeoNames ID 5133273. Its recorded administrative path is Queens County → New York → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Queens 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, Queens ranks 169 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 5; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 20. Its 2,316,841 population value is 2.97 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 2.84 times the 816,326 regional median. Queens falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's United States population cohort. Queens's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Queens's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Brooklyn at 10.155 km with 2,736,074 recorded people; New York City at 14.743 km with 8,804,190 recorded people; Manhattan at 15.747 km with 1,487,536 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 5.592 km. Compared with Brooklyn, Queens's recorded population is 0.85 times as large. Against Queens, Brooklyn follows Kings County → New York → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Queens's. Against Queens, New York City follows New York → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Queens's. Against Queens, Manhattan follows New York County → New York → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Queens's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 154 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Queens's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 5133273, the coordinate pair 40.6815 / 73.8365, country rank 5 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5110302 at 10.155 km bind Queens to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Queens's reference point is 40.6815° north and 73.8365° west. The IANA identifier America/New_York is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Queens's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Queens's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Queens's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Queens 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
Queens's closest other entries in this atlas are Brooklyn (10.155 km), New York City (14.743 km), Manhattan (15.747 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.