1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Saitama, Japan 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 Saitama—1,324,854, Asia/Tokyo, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Saitama is GeoNames ID 6940394. Its recorded administrative path is Saitama-shi → Saitama → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Saitama 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 2025-02-18; 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, Saitama ranks 380 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 10; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 222. Its 1,324,854 population value is 1.72 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 1.31 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Saitama sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Japan population cohort. Saitama's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Saitama's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kawaguchi at 12.435 km with 607,373 recorded people; Tokyo at 24.51 km with 9,733,276 recorded people; Matsudo at 26.27 km with 498,575 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 13.835 km. Compared with Kawaguchi, Saitama's recorded population is 2.18 times as large. Against Saitama, Kawaguchi follows Kawaguchi-shi → Saitama → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Saitama's. Against Saitama, Tokyo follows Tokyo → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Saitama's. Against Saitama, Matsudo follows Matsudo Shi → Chiba → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Saitama's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 179 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Saitama'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 6940394, the coordinate pair 35.9081 / 139.6566, country rank 10 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1859730 at 12.435 km bind Saitama to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Saitama's reference point is 35.9081° north and 139.6566° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tokyo is shared by 34 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Saitama's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Saitama's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Saitama's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Saitama, 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
Saitama's closest other entries in this atlas are Kawaguchi (12.435 km), Tokyo (24.51 km), Matsudo (26.27 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-18; 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.