1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Kazakhstan
Compare this sourced profile of Almaty, Kazakhstan 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 Almaty—1,977,011, Asia/Almaty, 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: largest city of Kazakhstan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Almaty is GeoNames ID 1526384. Its recorded administrative path is Almaty → Kazakhstan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Almaty 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 2026-04-14; 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, Almaty ranks 205 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected Kazakhstan entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 124. Its 1,977,011 population value is 1.65 times the 1,200,000 median for the country cohort and 1.96 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Almaty is rank 1 among the 5 selected Kazakhstan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Almaty'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.
Almaty's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bishkek at 193.332 km with 900,000 recorded people; Aqsu at 360.231 km with 535,657 recorded people; Kashgar at 427.916 km with 506,640 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 234.584 km. Compared with Bishkek, Almaty's recorded population is 2.20 times as large. Against Almaty, Bishkek follows Bishkek → Kyrgyzstan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Kyrgyzstan cohort rather than Kazakhstan, uses Asia/Bishkek instead of Asia/Almaty, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Almaty's. Against Almaty, Aqsu follows Aksu Diqu → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected China cohort rather than Kazakhstan, uses Asia/Urumqi instead of Asia/Almaty, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Almaty's. Against Almaty, Kashgar follows Kashi Diqu → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected China cohort rather than Kazakhstan, uses Asia/Urumqi instead of Asia/Almaty, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Almaty's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 977 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Almaty'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 1526384, the coordinate pair 43.2525 / 76.9115, country rank 1 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 1528675 at 193.332 km bind Almaty to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Almaty's reference point is 43.2525° north and 76.9115° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Almaty is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Almaty's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Almaty's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Almaty's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Almaty, 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
Almaty's closest other entries in this atlas are Bishkek (193.332 km), Aqsu (360.231 km), Kashgar (427.916 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.