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 Bhavnagar—605,882, 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 Gujarat, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bhavnagar is GeoNames ID 1276032. Its recorded administrative path is Bhavnagar → Gujarat → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Bhavnagar 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 2024-01-06; 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, Bhavnagar ranks 921 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 84; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 498. Its 605,882 population value is 0.60 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.60 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bhavnagar sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Bhavnagar'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.
Bhavnagar's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Surat at 94.233 km with 4,591,246 recorded people; Vadodara at 124.017 km with 1,822,221 recorded people; Bilimora at 138.599 km with 510,879 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 44.366 km. Compared with Surat, Bhavnagar's recorded population is 0.13 times as large. Against Bhavnagar, Surat follows Surat → Gujarat → 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 Bhavnagar's. Against Bhavnagar, Vadodara follows Vadodara → Gujarat → 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 Bhavnagar's. Against Bhavnagar, Bilimora follows Navsari → Gujarat → 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 Bhavnagar's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 672 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bhavnagar'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 1276032, the coordinate pair 21.7629 / 72.1533, country rank 84 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1255364 at 94.233 km bind Bhavnagar to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bhavnagar's reference point is 21.7629° north and 72.1533° 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. Bhavnagar's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bhavnagar's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bhavnagar's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bhavnagar, 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
Bhavnagar's closest other entries in this atlas are Surat (94.233 km), Vadodara (124.017 km), Bilimora (138.599 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-06; 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.