1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Sapporo—1,973,832, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: city on Hokkaido, Japan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sapporo is GeoNames ID 2128295. Its recorded administrative path is Sapporo-shi → Hokkaido → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Sapporo 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 2025-11-03; 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, Sapporo ranks 208 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 5; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 125. Its 1,973,832 population value is 2.56 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 1.96 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Sapporo falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Japan population cohort. Sapporo's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Sapporo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sendai at 535.287 km with 1,096,704 recorded people; Niigata at 604.325 km with 797,591 recorded people; Utsunomiya at 733.506 km with 518,757 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 198.219 km. Compared with Sendai, Sapporo's recorded population is 1.80 times as large. Against Sapporo, Sendai follows Sendai Shi → Miyagi → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Sapporo's. Against Sapporo, Niigata follows Niigata Shi → Niigata → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Sapporo's. Against Sapporo, Utsunomiya follows Utsunomiya Shi → Tochigi → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Sapporo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,183 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sapporo'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 2128295, the coordinate pair 43.0667 / 141.3500, country rank 5 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 2111149 at 535.287 km bind Sapporo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sapporo's reference point is 43.0667° north and 141.3500° 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. Sapporo's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sapporo's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sapporo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sapporo, 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
Sapporo's closest other entries in this atlas are Sendai (535.287 km), Niigata (604.325 km), Utsunomiya (733.506 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-11-03; 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.