1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Austria
Compare this sourced profile of Vienna, Austria 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 Vienna—1,691,468, Europe/Vienna, 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: capital of and state in Austria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Vienna is GeoNames ID 2761369. Its recorded administrative path is Wien Stadt → State of Vienna → Austria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Vienna 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 2025-11-01; 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, Vienna ranks 262 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Austria entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 14. Its 1,691,468 population value is 1.00 times the 1,691,468 median for the country cohort and 2.55 times the 664,046 regional median. Vienna is rank 1 among the 1 selected Austria entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Vienna'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.
Vienna's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Budapest at 214.173 km with 1,741,041 recorded people; Prague at 252.611 km with 1,165,581 recorded people; Zagreb at 267.877 km with 663,592 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 53.704 km. Compared with Budapest, Vienna's recorded population is 0.97 times as large. Against Vienna, Budapest follows Budapest → Hungary in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Hungary cohort rather than Austria, uses Europe/Budapest instead of Europe/Vienna, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Vienna's. Against Vienna, Prague follows Prague → Czechia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Czechia cohort rather than Austria, uses Europe/Prague instead of Europe/Vienna, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Vienna's. Against Vienna, Zagreb follows Zagreb → Croatia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Croatia cohort rather than Austria, uses Europe/Zagreb instead of Europe/Vienna, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Vienna's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,025 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Vienna'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 2761369, the coordinate pair 48.2085 / 16.3721, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 3054643 at 214.173 km bind Vienna to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Vienna's reference point is 48.2085° north and 16.3721° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Vienna is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Vienna's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Vienna's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Vienna's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Vienna at 171 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
Vienna's closest other entries in this atlas are Budapest (214.173 km), Prague (252.611 km), Zagreb (267.877 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-11-01; 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.