1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of Zapopan, Mexico 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 Zapopan—1,476,491, America/Mexico_City, 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: municipal seat of Zapopan, State of Jalisco, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Zapopan is GeoNames ID 3979770. Its recorded administrative path is Zapopan → Jalisco → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Zapopan 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 2025-06-12; 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, Zapopan ranks 325 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 9; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 49. Its 1,476,491 population value is 1.83 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 1.81 times the 816,326 regional median. Zapopan falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Mexico population cohort. Zapopan's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Zapopan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Guadalajara at 6.395 km with 1,385,629 recorded people; Tlaquepaque at 13.212 km with 650,123 recorded people; Aguascalientes City at 172.454 km with 722,250 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 166.059 km. Compared with Guadalajara, Zapopan's recorded population is 1.07 times as large. Against Zapopan, Guadalajara follows Guadalajara → Jalisco → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Zapopan's. Against Zapopan, Tlaquepaque follows San Pedro Tlaquepaque → Jalisco → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Zapopan's. Against Zapopan, Aguascalientes City follows Aguascalientes → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Zapopan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 88 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Zapopan's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. 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 3979770, the coordinate pair 20.7211 / 103.3874, country rank 9 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 4005539 at 6.395 km bind Zapopan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Zapopan's reference point is 20.7211° north and 103.3874° west. The IANA identifier America/Mexico_City is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Zapopan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Zapopan's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Zapopan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Zapopan, 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
Zapopan's closest other entries in this atlas are Guadalajara (6.395 km), Tlaquepaque (13.212 km), Aguascalientes City (172.454 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-12; 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.