1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Sweden
Compare this sourced profile of Stockholm, Sweden 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 Stockholm—1,515,017, Europe/Stockholm, 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: capital and largest city of Sweden.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Stockholm is GeoNames ID 2673730. Its recorded administrative path is Stockholms Kommun → Stockholm → Sweden, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Stockholm 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 2024-06-20; 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, Stockholm ranks 311 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Sweden entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 17. Its 1,515,017 population value is 1.43 times the 1,061,740 median for the country cohort and 2.28 times the 664,046 regional median. Stockholm is rank 1 among the 2 selected Sweden entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Stockholm'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.
Stockholm's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Helsinki at 395.643 km with 658,864 recorded people; Gothenburg at 397.401 km with 608,462 recorded people; Oslo at 416.628 km with 1,082,575 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 20.985 km. Compared with Helsinki, Stockholm's recorded population is 2.30 times as large. Against Stockholm, Helsinki follows Helsinki sub-region → Uusimaa → Finland in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Finland cohort rather than Sweden, uses Europe/Helsinki instead of Europe/Stockholm, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Stockholm's. Against Stockholm, Gothenburg follows Goeteborgs stad → Vaestra Goetaland → Sweden in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Sweden cohort, uses the shared Europe/Stockholm identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Stockholm's. Against Stockholm, Oslo follows Oslo → Norway in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Norway cohort rather than Sweden, uses Europe/Oslo instead of Europe/Stockholm, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Stockholm's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,163 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Stockholm'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 2673730, the coordinate pair 59.3294 / 18.0687, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 658225 at 395.643 km bind Stockholm to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Stockholm's reference point is 59.3294° north and 18.0687° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Stockholm is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Stockholm's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Stockholm's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Stockholm's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Stockholm, 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
Stockholm's closest other entries in this atlas are Helsinki (395.643 km), Gothenburg (397.401 km), Oslo (416.628 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 2024-06-20; 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.