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 Bengaluru—8,495,492, 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: capital city of Karnataka state in India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bengaluru is GeoNames ID 1277333. Its recorded administrative path is Bangalore Urban → Karnataka → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Bengaluru 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, Bengaluru ranks 32 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 3; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 22. Its 8,495,492 population value is 8.48 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 8.42 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bengaluru falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's India population cohort. Bengaluru's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Bengaluru's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Mysore at 127.834 km with 920,550 recorded people; Salem at 158.769 km with 917,414 recorded people; Vellore at 166.871 km with 484,690 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 39.037 km. Compared with Mysore, Bengaluru's recorded population is 9.23 times as large. Against Bengaluru, Mysore follows Mysore → Karnataka → 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Bengaluru's. Against Bengaluru, Salem follows Salem → Tamil Nadu → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Bengaluru's. Against Bengaluru, Vellore follows Vellore → Tamil Nadu → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Bengaluru's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 810 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bengaluru'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 1277333, the coordinate pair 12.9719 / 77.5937, country rank 3 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1262321 at 127.834 km bind Bengaluru to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bengaluru's reference point is 12.9719° north and 77.5937° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kolkata is shared by 109 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Bengaluru's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bengaluru's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bengaluru's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Bengaluru at 920 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Bengaluru's closest other entries in this atlas are Mysore (127.834 km), Salem (158.769 km), Vellore (166.871 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.