1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Italy
Compare this sourced profile of Venice, Italy 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 Venice—51,298, Europe/Rome, 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 Venice is GeoNames ID 3164603. Its recorded administrative path is Provincia di Venezia → Veneto → Italy, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Venice 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 2026-03-23; 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, Venice ranks 1,206 by recorded population. Inside the 8 selected Italy entries it ranks 8; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 125. Its 51,298 population value is 0.07 times the 747,774 median for the country cohort and 0.08 times the 664,046 regional median. Venice is rank 8 among the 8 selected Italy entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Venice'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.
Venice's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Florence at 203.416 km with 367,150 recorded people; Milan at 245.186 km with 1,371,498 recorded people; Zagreb at 286.534 km with 663,592 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 83.118 km. Compared with Florence, Venice's recorded population is 0.14 times as large. Against Venice, Florence follows Province of Florence → Tuscany → Italy in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Venice's. Against Venice, Milan follows Citta metropolitana di Milano → Lombardy → Italy in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Italy cohort, uses the shared Europe/Rome identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Venice's. Against Venice, Zagreb follows Zagreb → Croatia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Croatia cohort rather than Italy, uses Europe/Zagreb instead of Europe/Rome, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Venice's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,007 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Venice'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 3164603, the coordinate pair 45.4371 / 12.3327, country rank 8 of 8, and neighbor GeoNames 3176959 at 203.416 km bind Venice to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Venice's reference point is 45.4371° north and 12.3327° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Rome is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Venice's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Venice's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Venice's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Venice at 2 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
Venice's closest other entries in this atlas are Florence (203.416 km), Milan (245.186 km), Zagreb (286.534 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-03-23; 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.