1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
France
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Toulouse—511,684, Europe/Paris, 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: French commune and city in Haute-Garonne, Occitania.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Toulouse is GeoNames ID 2972315. Its recorded administrative path is Upper Garonne → Occitanie → France, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Toulouse 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 2025-12-09; 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, Toulouse ranks 1,111 by recorded population. Inside the 4 selected France entries it ranks 4; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 109. Its 511,684 population value is 0.73 times the 698,995 median for the country cohort and 0.77 times the 664,046 regional median. Toulouse is rank 4 among the 4 selected France entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Toulouse'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.
Toulouse's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Barcelona (Spain) at 253.231 km with 1,686,208 recorded people; Zaragoza at 288.045 km with 686,986 recorded people; Marseille at 319.643 km with 877,215 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 66.412 km. Compared with Barcelona (Spain), Toulouse's recorded population is 0.30 times as large. Against Toulouse, Barcelona (Spain) follows Provincia de Barcelona → Catalonia → Spain in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Spain cohort rather than France, uses Europe/Madrid instead of Europe/Paris, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Toulouse's. Against Toulouse, Zaragoza follows Provincia de Zaragoza → Aragon → Spain in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Spain cohort rather than France, uses Europe/Madrid instead of Europe/Paris, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Toulouse's. Against Toulouse, Marseille follows Bouches-du-Rhone → Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur → France in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected France cohort, uses the shared Europe/Paris identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Toulouse's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,070 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Toulouse'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 2972315, the coordinate pair 43.6043 / 1.4437, country rank 4 of 4, and neighbor GeoNames 3128760 at 253.231 km bind Toulouse to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Toulouse's reference point is 43.6043° north and 1.4437° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Paris is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Toulouse's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Toulouse's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Toulouse's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Toulouse, 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
Toulouse's closest other entries in this atlas are Barcelona (Spain) (253.231 km), Zaragoza (288.045 km), Marseille (319.643 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-09; 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.