1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Netherlands
Compare this sourced profile of Rotterdam, Netherlands 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 Rotterdam—868,135, Europe/Amsterdam, 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: city in South Holland, the Netherlands.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Rotterdam is GeoNames ID 2747891. Its recorded administrative path is Rotterdam → South Holland → Netherlands, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Rotterdam 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 2025-10-26; 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, Rotterdam ranks 641 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Netherlands entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 48. Its 868,135 population value is 1.08 times the 804,886 median for the country cohort and 1.31 times the 664,046 regional median. Rotterdam is rank 1 among the 2 selected Netherlands entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Rotterdam'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.
Rotterdam's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Amsterdam at 57.492 km with 741,636 recorded people; Antwerp at 78.252 km with 529,247 recorded people; Brussels at 119.549 km with 1,019,022 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 62.057 km. Compared with Amsterdam, Rotterdam's recorded population is 1.17 times as large. Against Rotterdam, Amsterdam follows Gemeente Amsterdam → North Holland → Netherlands in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Netherlands cohort, uses the shared Europe/Amsterdam identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Rotterdam's. Against Rotterdam, Antwerp follows Provincie Antwerpen → Flanders → Belgium in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Belgium cohort rather than Netherlands, uses Europe/Brussels instead of Europe/Amsterdam, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Rotterdam's. Against Rotterdam, Brussels follows Bruxelles-Capitale → Brussels Capital → Belgium in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Belgium cohort rather than Netherlands, uses Europe/Brussels instead of Europe/Amsterdam, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Rotterdam's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 487 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Rotterdam's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 2747891, the coordinate pair 51.9225 / 4.4792, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2759794 at 57.492 km bind Rotterdam to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Rotterdam's reference point is 51.9225° north and 4.4792° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Amsterdam is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Rotterdam's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Rotterdam's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Rotterdam's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Rotterdam, 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
Rotterdam's closest other entries in this atlas are Amsterdam (57.492 km), Antwerp (78.252 km), Brussels (119.549 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-10-26; 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.