Sacramento

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Sacramento is GeoNames ID 5389489. Its recorded administrative path is Sacramento County → California → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat.

Sacramento 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 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Sacramento ranks 1,078 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 39; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 176.

Its 524,943 population value is 0.67 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.64 times the 816,326 regional median. Sacramento sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries.

Sacramento'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

Sacramento's three nearest other atlas coordinates are San Francisco at 120.757 km with 827,526 recorded people; San Jose at 142.518 km with 997,368 recorded people; Fresno at 254.067 km with 542,107 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 133.31 km. Compared with San Francisco, Sacramento's recorded population is 0.63 times as large. Against Sacramento, San Francisco follows City and County of San Francisco → California → 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/Los_Angeles identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat.

Its recorded population is above Sacramento's. Against Sacramento, San Jose follows Santa Clara County → California → 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/Los_Angeles identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Sacramento's. Against Sacramento, Fresno follows Fresno County → California → United States in the source.

Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Los_Angeles identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Sacramento's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 777 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sacramento'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 5389489, the coordinate pair 38.5816 / 121.4944, country rank 39 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5391959 at 120.757 km bind Sacramento to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Sacramento's reference point is 38.5816° north and 121.4944° west. The IANA identifier America/Los_Angeles is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Sacramento's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.

Sacramento's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sacramento's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Sacramento at 9 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.