1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Poland
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Warsaw—1,702,139, Europe/Warsaw, 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 Poland.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Warsaw is GeoNames ID 756135. Its recorded administrative path is Warszawa → Mazovia → Poland, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Warsaw 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 2026-06-30; 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, Warsaw ranks 258 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Poland entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 13. Its 1,702,139 population value is 2.59 times the 656,218 median for the country cohort and 2.56 times the 664,046 regional median. Warsaw is rank 1 among the 6 selected Poland entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Warsaw's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Warsaw's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Łódź at 117.002 km with 639,890 recorded people; Kraków at 252.497 km with 816,614 recorded people; Poznań at 278.107 km with 536,151 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 161.105 km. Compared with Łódź, Warsaw's recorded population is 2.66 times as large. Against Warsaw, Łódź follows Lodz → Lodz Voivodeship → Poland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Poland cohort, uses the shared Europe/Warsaw identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Warsaw's. Against Warsaw, Kraków follows Krakow → Lesser Poland → Poland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Poland cohort, uses the shared Europe/Warsaw identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Warsaw's. Against Warsaw, Poznań follows Poznan → Greater Poland → Poland in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Poland cohort, uses the shared Europe/Warsaw identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Warsaw's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 755 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Warsaw'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 756135, the coordinate pair 52.2298 / 21.0118, country rank 1 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 3093133 at 117.002 km bind Warsaw to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Warsaw's reference point is 52.2298° north and 21.0118° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Warsaw is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Warsaw's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Warsaw's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Warsaw's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Warsaw, 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
Warsaw's closest other entries in this atlas are Łódź (117.002 km), Kraków (252.497 km), Poznań (278.107 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-30; 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.