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 Amritsar—1,159,227, 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 the north-western part of Punjab, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Amritsar is GeoNames ID 1278710. Its recorded administrative path is Amritsar → Punjab → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Amritsar 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 2026-01-09; 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, Amritsar ranks 467 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 44; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 273. Its 1,159,227 population value is 1.16 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.15 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Amritsar sits in the second quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Amritsar'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.
Amritsar's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Lahore at 50.204 km with 13,004,135 recorded people; Kasur at 69.033 km with 510,875 recorded people; Jalandhar at 74.46 km with 868,929 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 24.256 km. Compared with Lahore, Amritsar's recorded population is 0.09 times as large. Against Amritsar, Lahore follows Lahore District → Punjab → Pakistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Pakistan cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Karachi instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Amritsar's. Against Amritsar, Kasur follows Kasur → Punjab → Pakistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Pakistan cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Karachi instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Amritsar's. Against Amritsar, Jalandhar follows Jalandhar → Punjab → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Amritsar's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 439 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Amritsar'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 1278710, the coordinate pair 31.6223 / 74.8753, country rank 44 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1172451 at 50.204 km bind Amritsar to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Amritsar's reference point is 31.6223° north and 74.8753° 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. Amritsar's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Amritsar's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Amritsar's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Amritsar, 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
Amritsar's closest other entries in this atlas are Lahore (50.204 km), Kasur (69.033 km), Jalandhar (74.46 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-09; 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.