1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Spain
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Zaragoza—686,986, Europe/Madrid, 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 Zaragoza Municipality, Spain.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Zaragoza is GeoNames ID 3104324. Its recorded administrative path is Provincia de Zaragoza → Aragon → Spain, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Zaragoza 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 2026-03-23; 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, Zaragoza ranks 806 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Spain entries it ranks 4; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 60. Its 686,986 population value is 0.91 times the 755,663 median for the country cohort and 1.03 times the 664,046 regional median. Zaragoza is rank 4 among the 6 selected Spain entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Zaragoza'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.
Zaragoza's three nearest other atlas coordinates are City of Valencia (Spain) at 246.258 km with 824,340 recorded people; Barcelona (Spain) at 254.506 km with 1,686,208 recorded people; Madrid at 274.111 km with 3,255,944 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 27.853 km. Compared with City of Valencia (Spain), Zaragoza's recorded population is 0.83 times as large. Against Zaragoza, City of Valencia (Spain) follows Provincia de Valencia → Valencia → Spain in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Spain cohort, uses the shared Europe/Madrid identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Zaragoza's. Against Zaragoza, Barcelona (Spain) follows Provincia de Barcelona → Catalonia → Spain in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Spain cohort, uses the shared Europe/Madrid identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Zaragoza's. Against Zaragoza, Madrid follows Provincia de Madrid → Madrid → Spain in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Spain cohort, uses the shared Europe/Madrid identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Zaragoza's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,059 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Zaragoza'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 3104324, the coordinate pair 41.6561 / 0.8773, country rank 4 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 2509954 at 246.258 km bind Zaragoza to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Zaragoza's reference point is 41.6561° north and 0.8773° west. The IANA identifier Europe/Madrid is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Zaragoza's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Zaragoza's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Zaragoza's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Zaragoza, 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
Zaragoza's closest other entries in this atlas are City of Valencia (Spain) (246.258 km), Barcelona (Spain) (254.506 km), Madrid (274.111 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-03-23; 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.