1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Croatia
Compare this sourced profile of Zagreb, Croatia 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 Zagreb—663,592, Europe/Zagreb, 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 city of Croatia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Zagreb is GeoNames ID 3186886. Its recorded administrative path is Zagreb → Croatia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Zagreb 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 2023-11-25; 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, Zagreb ranks 834 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Croatia entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 64. Its 663,592 population value is 1.00 times the 663,592 median for the country cohort and 1.00 times the 664,046 regional median. Zagreb is rank 1 among the 1 selected Croatia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Zagreb'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.
Zagreb's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Vienna at 267.877 km with 1,691,468 recorded people; Venice at 286.534 km with 51,298 recorded people; Sarajevo at 287.998 km with 696,731 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 20.121 km. Compared with Vienna, Zagreb's recorded population is 0.39 times as large. Against Zagreb, Vienna follows Wien Stadt → State of Vienna → Austria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Austria cohort rather than Croatia, uses Europe/Vienna instead of Europe/Zagreb, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Zagreb's. Against Zagreb, Venice follows Provincia di Venezia → Veneto → Italy in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Italy cohort rather than Croatia, uses Europe/Rome instead of Europe/Zagreb, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Zagreb's. Against Zagreb, Sarajevo follows Canton of Sarajevo → Federation of B&H → Bosnia & Herzegovina in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Bosnia & Herzegovina cohort rather than Croatia, uses Europe/Sarajevo instead of Europe/Zagreb, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Zagreb's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,089 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Zagreb'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 3186886, the coordinate pair 45.8144 / 15.9780, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2761369 at 267.877 km bind Zagreb to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Zagreb's reference point is 45.8144° north and 15.9780° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Zagreb is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Zagreb's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Zagreb's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Zagreb's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Zagreb, 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
Zagreb's closest other entries in this atlas are Vienna (267.877 km), Venice (286.534 km), Sarajevo (287.998 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-11-25; 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.