1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Spain
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for City of Valencia (Spain)—824,340, Europe/Madrid, 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: city in Spain, capital of the Valencian Community.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind City of Valencia (Spain) is GeoNames ID 2509954. Its recorded administrative path is Provincia de Valencia → Valencia → Spain, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Valencia appears on 2 separate GeoNames rows in this atlas, so the qualifier “Spain” and numeric ID prevent those places from being merged. The city row itself was updated 2025-10-22; 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, City of Valencia (Spain) ranks 678 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Spain entries it ranks 3; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 51. Its 824,340 population value is 1.09 times the 755,663 median for the country cohort and 1.24 times the 664,046 regional median. City of Valencia (Spain) is rank 3 among the 6 selected Spain entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. City of Valencia (Spain)'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.
City of Valencia (Spain)'s three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zaragoza at 246.258 km with 686,986 recorded people; Madrid at 302.016 km with 3,255,944 recorded people; Barcelona (Spain) at 302.473 km with 1,686,208 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 56.215 km. Compared with Zaragoza, City of Valencia (Spain)'s recorded population is 1.20 times as large. Against City of Valencia (Spain), Zaragoza follows Provincia de Zaragoza → Aragon → Spain in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Spain cohort, uses the shared Europe/Madrid identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below City of Valencia (Spain)'s. Against City of Valencia (Spain), Madrid follows Provincia de Madrid → Madrid → Spain in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Spain cohort, uses the shared Europe/Madrid identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above City of Valencia (Spain)'s. Against City of Valencia (Spain), Barcelona (Spain) follows Provincia de Barcelona → Catalonia → Spain in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Spain cohort, uses the shared Europe/Madrid identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above City of Valencia (Spain)'s. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,059 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. City of Valencia (Spain)'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 2509954, the coordinate pair 39.4739 / 0.3797, country rank 3 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 3104324 at 246.258 km bind City of Valencia (Spain) to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
City of Valencia (Spain)'s reference point is 39.4739° north and 0.3797° west. The IANA identifier Europe/Madrid is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. City of Valencia (Spain)'s row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. City of Valencia (Spain)'s point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. City of Valencia (Spain)'s time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records City of Valencia (Spain) at 15 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
City of Valencia (Spain)'s closest other entries in this atlas are Zaragoza (246.258 km), Madrid (302.016 km), Barcelona (Spain) (302.473 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-10-22; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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