1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
Compare this sourced profile of Seattle, United States 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 Seattle—780,995, 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 in and county seat of King County, State of Washington, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Seattle is GeoNames ID 5809844. Its recorded administrative path is King County → Washington → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Seattle 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, Seattle ranks 708 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 22; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 104. Its 780,995 population value is 1.00 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.96 times the 816,326 regional median. Seattle sits in the second quarter of this atlas's United States population cohort. Seattle's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Seattle's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Surrey at 170.738 km with 568,322 recorded people; Vancouver at 191.75 km with 662,248 recorded people; Portland at 233.081 km with 652,503 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 62.343 km. Compared with Surrey, Seattle's recorded population is 1.37 times as large. Against Seattle, Surrey follows Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Canada cohort rather than United States, uses America/Vancouver instead of America/Los_Angeles, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Seattle's. Against Seattle, Vancouver follows Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Canada cohort rather than United States, uses America/Vancouver instead of America/Los_Angeles, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Seattle's. Against Seattle, Portland follows Multnomah County → Oregon → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Seattle's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 935 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Seattle'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 5809844, the coordinate pair 47.6062 / 122.3321, country rank 22 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 6159905 at 170.738 km bind Seattle to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Seattle's reference point is 47.6062° north and 122.3321° 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. Seattle's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Seattle's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Seattle's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Seattle at 56 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
Seattle's closest other entries in this atlas are Surrey (170.738 km), Vancouver (191.75 km), Portland (233.081 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.