1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Aligarh—753,207, Asia/Kolkata, 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: city in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Aligarh is GeoNames ID 1279017. Its recorded administrative path is Aligarh → Uttar Pradesh → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Alīgarh 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 2024-03-13; 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, Aligarh ranks 730 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 71; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 414. Its 753,207 population value is 0.75 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.75 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Aligarh sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Aligarh'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.
Aligarh's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Agra at 77.838 km with 1,430,055 recorded people; Faridabad at 95.102 km with 1,414,050 recorded people; Ghaziabad at 107.101 km with 1,199,191 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 29.263 km. Compared with Agra, Aligarh's recorded population is 0.53 times as large. Against Aligarh, Agra follows Agra → Uttar Pradesh → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Aligarh's. Against Aligarh, Faridabad follows Faridabad District → Haryana → India in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Aligarh's. Against Aligarh, Ghaziabad follows Ghaziabad → Uttar Pradesh → India in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Aligarh's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 603 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Aligarh's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1279017, the coordinate pair 27.8815 / 78.0746, country rank 71 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1279259 at 77.838 km bind Aligarh to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Aligarh's reference point is 27.8815° north and 78.0746° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kolkata is shared by 109 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Aligarh's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Aligarh's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Aligarh's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Aligarh, 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
Aligarh's closest other entries in this atlas are Agra (77.838 km), Faridabad (95.102 km), Ghaziabad (107.101 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-03-13; 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.