1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Utsunomiya, Japan 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 Utsunomiya—518,757, Asia/Tokyo, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Utsunomiya is GeoNames ID 1849053. Its recorded administrative path is Utsunomiya Shi → Tochigi → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Utsunomiya 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 2024-12-29; 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, Utsunomiya ranks 1,095 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 29; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 578. Its 518,757 population value is 0.67 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 0.51 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Utsunomiya sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Japan entries. Utsunomiya'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.
Utsunomiya's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Saitama at 76.004 km with 1,324,854 recorded people; Kawaguchi at 86.076 km with 607,373 recorded people; Matsudo at 87.494 km with 498,575 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 11.49 km. Compared with Saitama, Utsunomiya's recorded population is 0.39 times as large. Against Utsunomiya, Saitama follows Saitama-shi → Saitama → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Utsunomiya's. Against Utsunomiya, Kawaguchi follows Kawaguchi-shi → Saitama → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Utsunomiya's. Against Utsunomiya, Matsudo follows Matsudo Shi → Chiba → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Utsunomiya's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 592 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Utsunomiya'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 1849053, the coordinate pair 36.5667 / 139.8833, country rank 29 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 6940394 at 76.004 km bind Utsunomiya to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Utsunomiya's reference point is 36.5667° north and 139.8833° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tokyo is shared by 34 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Utsunomiya's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Utsunomiya's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Utsunomiya's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Utsunomiya, 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
Utsunomiya's closest other entries in this atlas are Saitama (76.004 km), Kawaguchi (86.076 km), Matsudo (87.494 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-12-29; 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.