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 Belagavi—490,045, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Belagavi is GeoNames ID 1276533. Its recorded administrative path is Belgaum → Karnataka → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Belagavi 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 2025-05-24; 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, Belagavi ranks 1,168 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 105; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 619. Its 490,045 population value is 0.49 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.49 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Belagavi sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Belagavi's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Belagavi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Hubballi at 87.68 km with 943,788 recorded people; Kolhapur at 98.21 km with 549,236 recorded people; Sangli at 111.628 km with 601,214 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 23.948 km. Compared with Hubballi, Belagavi's recorded population is 0.52 times as large. Against Belagavi, Hubballi follows Dharwad → Karnataka → 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 above Belagavi's. Against Belagavi, Kolhapur follows Kolhapur → Maharashtra → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Belagavi's. Against Belagavi, Sangli follows Sangli → Maharashtra → India in the source. Its point has higher 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 above Belagavi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 645 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Belagavi'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 1276533, the coordinate pair 15.8521 / 74.5045, country rank 105 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1269920 at 87.68 km bind Belagavi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Belagavi's reference point is 15.8521° north and 74.5045° 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. Belagavi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Belagavi's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Belagavi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Belagavi, 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
Belagavi's closest other entries in this atlas are Hubballi (87.68 km), Kolhapur (98.21 km), Sangli (111.628 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-24; 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.