1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Philippines
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Valenzuela—725,173, Asia/Manila, 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 Valenzuela is GeoNames ID 1680102. Its recorded administrative path is Northern Manila District → National Capital Region → Philippines, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Valenzuela 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 2025-09-25; 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, Valenzuela ranks 763 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected Philippines entries it ranks 13; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 429. Its 725,173 population value is 0.91 times the 797,334 median for the country cohort and 0.72 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Valenzuela sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Philippines entries. Valenzuela'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.
Valenzuela's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Caloocan at 5.613 km with 1,712,945 recorded people; Quezon City at 10.698 km with 3,084,270 recorded people; Manila at 10.782 km with 1,600,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 5.169 km. Compared with Caloocan, Valenzuela's recorded population is 0.42 times as large. Against Valenzuela, Caloocan follows Northern Manila District → National Capital Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Valenzuela's. Against Valenzuela, Quezon City follows Eastern Manila District → National Capital Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Valenzuela's. Against Valenzuela, Manila follows Capital District → National Capital Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Valenzuela's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 68 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Valenzuela's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth 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 1680102, the coordinate pair 14.7000 / 120.9667, country rank 13 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1720151 at 5.613 km bind Valenzuela to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Valenzuela's reference point is 14.7000° north and 120.9667° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Manila is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Valenzuela's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Valenzuela's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Valenzuela's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Valenzuela, 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
Valenzuela's closest other entries in this atlas are Caloocan (5.613 km), Quezon City (10.698 km), Manila (10.782 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-09-25; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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