1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Canada
Compare this sourced profile of Vancouver, Canada 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 Vancouver—662,248, America/Vancouver, 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: largest city in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Vancouver is GeoNames ID 6173331. Its recorded administrative path is Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Vancouver 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 2025-08-04; 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, Vancouver ranks 837 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Canada entries it ranks 8; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 129. Its 662,248 population value is 0.90 times the 733,784 median for the country cohort and 0.81 times the 816,326 regional median. Vancouver sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Canada entries. Vancouver'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.
Vancouver's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Surrey at 26.672 km with 568,322 recorded people; Seattle at 191.75 km with 780,995 recorded people; Portland at 415.674 km with 652,503 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 389.002 km. Compared with Surrey, Vancouver's recorded population is 1.17 times as large. Against Vancouver, Surrey follows Metro Vancouver Regional District → British Columbia → Canada in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Canada cohort, uses the shared America/Vancouver identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Vancouver's. Against Vancouver, Seattle follows King County → Washington → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Canada, uses America/Los_Angeles instead of America/Vancouver, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Vancouver's. Against Vancouver, Portland follows Multnomah County → Oregon → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Canada, uses America/Los_Angeles instead of America/Vancouver, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Vancouver's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 303 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Vancouver'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 6173331, the coordinate pair 49.2497 / 123.1193, country rank 8 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 6159905 at 26.672 km bind Vancouver to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Vancouver's reference point is 49.2497° north and 123.1193° west. The IANA identifier America/Vancouver is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Vancouver's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Vancouver's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Vancouver's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Vancouver, 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
Vancouver's closest other entries in this atlas are Surrey (26.672 km), Seattle (191.75 km), Portland (415.674 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Vancouver, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-04; 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.