1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Canada
Compare this sourced profile of Surrey, Canada 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 Surrey—568,322, America/Vancouver, 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: second largest city in British Columbia, Canada.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
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.
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.
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.
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.
03Nearby atlas references
Surrey's closest other entries in this atlas are Vancouver (26.672 km), Seattle (170.738 km), Portland (398.558 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-09-17; 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.