1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Lithuania
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Vilnius—542,366, Europe/Vilnius, 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 and largest city of Lithuania.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Vilnius is GeoNames ID 593116. Its recorded administrative path is Vilnius → Lithuania, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Vilnius 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 2021-07-25; 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, Vilnius ranks 1,034 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Lithuania entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 96. Its 542,366 population value is 1.00 times the 542,366 median for the country cohort and 0.82 times the 664,046 regional median. Vilnius is rank 1 among the 1 selected Lithuania entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Vilnius'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.
Vilnius's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Minsk at 172.378 km with 1,742,124 recorded people; Riga at 261.435 km with 742,572 recorded people; Warsaw at 393.097 km with 1,702,139 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 220.719 km. Compared with Minsk, Vilnius's recorded population is 0.31 times as large. Against Vilnius, Minsk follows Minsk City → Belarus in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Belarus cohort rather than Lithuania, uses Europe/Minsk instead of Europe/Vilnius, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Vilnius's. Against Vilnius, Riga follows Riga → Latvia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Latvia cohort rather than Lithuania, uses Europe/Riga instead of Europe/Vilnius, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Vilnius's. Against Vilnius, Warsaw follows Warszawa → Mazovia → Poland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Poland cohort rather than Lithuania, uses Europe/Warsaw instead of Europe/Vilnius, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Vilnius's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 938 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Vilnius'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 593116, the coordinate pair 54.6892 / 25.2798, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 625144 at 172.378 km bind Vilnius to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Vilnius's reference point is 54.6892° north and 25.2798° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Vilnius is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Vilnius's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Vilnius's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Vilnius's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Vilnius, 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
Vilnius's closest other entries in this atlas are Minsk (172.378 km), Riga (261.435 km), Warsaw (393.097 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-07-25; 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.