Surrey

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Surrey is GeoNames ID 6159905. Its recorded administrative path is Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place.

Surrey 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 2025-09-17; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Surrey ranks 981 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Canada entries it ranks 11; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 159.

Its 568,322 population value is 0.77 times the 733,784 median for the country cohort and 0.70 times the 816,326 regional median. Surrey sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Canada entries.

Surrey'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

Surrey's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Vancouver at 26.672 km with 662,248 recorded people; Seattle at 170.738 km with 780,995 recorded people; Portland at 398.558 km with 652,503 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 371.886 km. Compared with Vancouver, Surrey's recorded population is 0.86 times as large. Against Surrey, Vancouver follows Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Vancouver identifier, and carries the same populated place class.

Its recorded population is above Surrey's. Against Surrey, Seattle follows King County → Washington → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Canada, uses America/Los_Angeles instead of America/Vancouver, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Surrey's. Against Surrey, Portland follows Multnomah County → Oregon → United States in the source.

Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Canada, uses America/Los_Angeles instead of America/Vancouver, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Surrey's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 303 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Surrey'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 6159905, the coordinate pair 49.1064 / 122.8251, country rank 11 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 6173331 at 26.672 km bind Surrey to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Surrey's reference point is 49.1064° north and 122.8251° west. The IANA identifier America/Vancouver is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Surrey's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.

Surrey's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Surrey's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Surrey, 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.