1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for The Bronx—1,385,108, America/New_York, 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: borough of New York City, New York, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind The Bronx is GeoNames ID 5110266. Its recorded administrative path is Bronx County → New York → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. The Bronx 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 2024-11-21; 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, The Bronx ranks 362 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 12; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 52. Its 1,385,108 population value is 1.77 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 1.70 times the 816,326 regional median. The Bronx sits in the second quarter of this atlas's United States population cohort. The Bronx'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.
The Bronx's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Manhattan at 11.186 km with 1,487,536 recorded people; Queens at 18.889 km with 2,316,841 recorded people; New York City at 19.114 km with 8,804,190 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 7.928 km. Compared with Manhattan, The Bronx's recorded population is 0.93 times as large. Against The Bronx, Manhattan follows New York County → New York → 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/New_York identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above The Bronx's. Against The Bronx, Queens follows Queens County → New York → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/New_York identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above The Bronx's. Against The Bronx, New York City follows New York → 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/New_York identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above The Bronx's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 164 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. The Bronx's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 5110266, the coordinate pair 40.8499 / 73.8664, country rank 12 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 5125771 at 11.186 km bind The Bronx to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
The Bronx's reference point is 40.8499° north and 73.8664° west. The IANA identifier America/New_York is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. The Bronx's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. The Bronx's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. The Bronx's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records The Bronx at 23 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
The Bronx's closest other entries in this atlas are Manhattan (11.186 km), Queens (18.889 km), New York City (19.114 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-11-21; 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.