1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Toluca de Lerdo—489,333, America/Mexico_City, 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 of the State of Mexico, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Toluca de Lerdo is GeoNames ID 3515302. Its recorded administrative path is Toluca → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Toluca 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 2026-04-14; 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, Toluca de Lerdo ranks 1,173 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 38; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 191. Its 489,333 population value is 0.61 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 0.60 times the 816,326 regional median. Toluca de Lerdo sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Mexico entries. Toluca de Lerdo's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Toluca de Lerdo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Naucalpan de Juárez at 48.287 km with 834,434 recorded people; Ciudad López Mateos at 51.289 km with 489,160 recorded people; Tlalpan at 51.556 km with 574,577 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 3.269 km. Compared with Naucalpan de Juárez, Toluca de Lerdo's recorded population is 0.59 times as large. Against Toluca de Lerdo, Naucalpan de Juárez follows Naucalpan de Juarez → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Toluca de Lerdo's. Against Toluca de Lerdo, Ciudad López Mateos follows Atizapan de Zaragoza → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Toluca de Lerdo's. Against Toluca de Lerdo, Tlalpan follows Tlalpan → Mexico City → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Toluca de Lerdo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 419 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Toluca de Lerdo'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 3515302, the coordinate pair 19.2879 / 99.6532, country rank 38 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 3522790 at 48.287 km bind Toluca de Lerdo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Toluca de Lerdo's reference point is 19.2879° north and 99.6532° west. The IANA identifier America/Mexico_City is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Toluca de Lerdo's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Toluca de Lerdo's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Toluca de Lerdo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Toluca de Lerdo, 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
Toluca de Lerdo's closest other entries in this atlas are Naucalpan de Juárez (48.287 km), Ciudad López Mateos (51.289 km), Tlalpan (51.556 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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