1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iceland
Compare this sourced profile of Reykjavik, Iceland 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 Reykjavik—118,918, Atlantic/Reykjavik, 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 and largest city in Iceland.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Reykjavik is GeoNames ID 3413829. Its recorded administrative path is Reykjavikurborg → Capital Region → Iceland, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Reykjavík 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 2025-05-08; 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, Reykjavik ranks 1,205 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Iceland entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 124. Its 118,918 population value is 1.00 times the 118,918 median for the country cohort and 0.18 times the 664,046 regional median. Reykjavik is rank 1 among the 1 selected Iceland entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Reykjavik'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.
Reykjavik's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Glasgow at 1,336.016 km with 626,410 recorded people; Edinburgh at 1,371.294 km with 514,990 recorded people; Dublin at 1,494.13 km with 1,024,027 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 158.114 km. Compared with Glasgow, Reykjavik's recorded population is 0.19 times as large. Against Reykjavik, Glasgow follows Glasgow City → Scotland → United Kingdom in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected United Kingdom cohort rather than Iceland, uses Europe/London instead of Atlantic/Reykjavik, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Reykjavik's. Against Reykjavik, Edinburgh follows City of Edinburgh → Scotland → United Kingdom in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected United Kingdom cohort rather than Iceland, uses Europe/London instead of Atlantic/Reykjavik, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Reykjavik's. Against Reykjavik, Dublin follows Dublin City → Leinster → Ireland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Ireland cohort rather than Iceland, uses Europe/Dublin instead of Atlantic/Reykjavik, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Reykjavik's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,204 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Reykjavik'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 3413829, the coordinate pair 64.1355 / 21.8954, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2648579 at 1,336.016 km bind Reykjavik to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Reykjavik's reference point is 64.1355° north and 21.8954° west. The IANA identifier Atlantic/Reykjavik is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Reykjavik's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Reykjavik's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Reykjavik's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Reykjavik, 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
Reykjavik's closest other entries in this atlas are Glasgow (1,336.016 km), Edinburgh (1,371.294 km), Dublin (1,494.13 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-08; 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.