1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Kazakhstan
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Astana—1,544,142, 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: capital of Kazakhstan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Astana is GeoNames ID 1526273. Its recorded administrative path is Astana → Kazakhstan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Astana 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 2026-06-12; 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, Astana ranks 303 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected Kazakhstan entries it ranks 2; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 176. Its 1,544,142 population value is 1.29 times the 1,200,000 median for the country cohort and 1.53 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Astana is rank 2 among the 5 selected Kazakhstan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Astana'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.
Astana's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Karagandy at 192.894 km with 497,777 recorded people; Omsk at 442.888 km with 1,172,070 recorded people; Tyumen at 767.103 km with 768,358 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 574.209 km. Compared with Karagandy, Astana's recorded population is 3.10 times as large. Against Astana, Karagandy follows Karaganda Gorodskaya Administratsiya → Karaganda → Kazakhstan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Kazakhstan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Almaty identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Astana's. Against Astana, Omsk follows Omsk Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Russia cohort rather than Kazakhstan, uses Asia/Omsk instead of Asia/Almaty, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Astana's. Against Astana, Tyumen follows Tyumen Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Russia cohort rather than Kazakhstan, uses Asia/Yekaterinburg instead of Asia/Almaty, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Astana's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 975 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Astana'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 1526273, the coordinate pair 51.1801 / 71.4460, country rank 2 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 609655 at 192.894 km bind Astana to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Astana's reference point is 51.1801° north and 71.4460° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Almaty is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Astana's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Astana's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Astana's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Astana, 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
Astana's closest other entries in this atlas are Karagandy (192.894 km), Omsk (442.888 km), Tyumen (767.103 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-12; 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.