1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for San Antonio—1,526,656, America/Chicago, 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 Bexar, Comal, and Medina counties in Texas, United States; seat of Bexar County.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind San Antonio is GeoNames ID 4726206. Its recorded administrative path is Bexar County → Texas → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. San Antonio 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, San Antonio ranks 309 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 9; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 43. Its 1,526,656 population value is 1.95 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 1.87 times the 816,326 regional median. San Antonio falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's United States population cohort. San Antonio'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.
San Antonio's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Austin at 118.438 km with 974,447 recorded people; Houston at 305.003 km with 2,314,157 recorded people; Reynosa at 372.412 km with 589,466 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 253.974 km. Compared with Austin, San Antonio's recorded population is 1.57 times as large. Against San Antonio, Austin follows Travis County → Texas → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Chicago identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below San Antonio's. Against San Antonio, Houston follows Harris County → Texas → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Chicago identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above San Antonio's. Against San Antonio, Reynosa follows Reynosa → Tamaulipas → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Mexico cohort rather than United States, uses America/Matamoros instead of America/Chicago, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below San Antonio's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 768 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. San Antonio'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 4726206, the coordinate pair 29.4241 / 98.4936, country rank 9 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 4671654 at 118.438 km bind San Antonio to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
San Antonio's reference point is 29.4241° north and 98.4936° west. The IANA identifier America/Chicago is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. San Antonio's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. San Antonio's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. San Antonio's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records San Antonio at 198 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
San Antonio's closest other entries in this atlas are Austin (118.438 km), Houston (305.003 km), Reynosa (372.412 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.
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