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 Jose—997,368, America/Los_Angeles, 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 and county seat of Santa Clara County, California, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind San Jose is GeoNames ID 5392171. Its recorded administrative path is Santa Clara County → California → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. San Jose 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 Jose ranks 554 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 16; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 75. Its 997,368 population value is 1.28 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 1.22 times the 816,326 regional median. San Jose sits in the second quarter of this atlas's United States population cohort. San Jose'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 Jose's three nearest other atlas coordinates are San Francisco at 66.953 km with 827,526 recorded people; Sacramento at 142.518 km with 524,943 recorded people; Fresno at 199.538 km with 542,107 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 132.585 km. Compared with San Francisco, San Jose's recorded population is 1.21 times as large. Against San Jose, San Francisco follows City and County of San Francisco → California → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Los_Angeles identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below San Jose's. Against San Jose, Sacramento follows Sacramento County → California → 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/Los_Angeles identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below San Jose's. Against San Jose, 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below San Jose's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 538 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. San Jose'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 5392171, the coordinate pair 37.3394 / 121.8950, country rank 16 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5391959 at 66.953 km bind San Jose to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
San Jose's reference point is 37.3394° north and 121.8950° west. The IANA identifier America/Los_Angeles is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. San Jose's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. San Jose's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. San Jose's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records San Jose at 26 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 Jose's closest other entries in this atlas are San Francisco (66.953 km), Sacramento (142.518 km), Fresno (199.538 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.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.