1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Germany
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Stuttgart—612,663, Europe/Berlin, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Stuttgart is GeoNames ID 2825297. Its recorded administrative path is Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart → Baden-Wurttemberg → Germany, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Stuttgart 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 2026-05-06; 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, Stuttgart ranks 910 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Germany entries it ranks 7; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 77. Its 612,663 population value is 1.03 times the 593,085 median for the country cohort and 0.92 times the 664,046 regional median. Stuttgart sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Germany population cohort. Stuttgart'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.
Stuttgart's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Frankfurt at 152.465 km with 650,000 recorded people; Nuremberg at 157.194 km with 515,543 recorded people; Zurich at 164.16 km with 415,367 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 11.695 km. Compared with Frankfurt, Stuttgart's recorded population is 0.94 times as large. Against Stuttgart, Frankfurt follows Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt → Hesse → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Stuttgart's. Against Stuttgart, Nuremberg follows Regierungsbezirk Mittelfranken → Bavaria → Germany in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Germany cohort, uses the shared Europe/Berlin identifier, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Stuttgart's. Against Stuttgart, Zurich follows Bezirk Zuerich → Zurich → Switzerland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Switzerland cohort rather than Germany, uses Europe/Zurich instead of Europe/Berlin, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Stuttgart's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 884 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Stuttgart'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 2825297, the coordinate pair 48.7823 / 9.1770, country rank 7 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 2925533 at 152.465 km bind Stuttgart to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Stuttgart's reference point is 48.7823° north and 9.1770° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Berlin is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Stuttgart's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Stuttgart's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Stuttgart's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Stuttgart, 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
Stuttgart's closest other entries in this atlas are Frankfurt (152.465 km), Nuremberg (157.194 km), Zurich (164.16 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-05-06; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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