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 Bhiwandi—874,032, 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: Big City Located In thane Dist..
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bhiwandi is GeoNames ID 1275901. Its recorded administrative path is Thane → Maharashtra → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Bhiwandi 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, Bhiwandi ranks 636 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 65; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 367. Its 874,032 population value is 0.87 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.87 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bhiwandi sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Bhiwandi'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.
Bhiwandi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dombivali at 9.641 km with 1,247,327 recorded people; Kalyan at 10.216 km with 1,262,255 recorded people; Ulhasnagar at 13.34 km with 516,584 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 3.699 km. Compared with Dombivali, Bhiwandi's recorded population is 0.70 times as large. Against Bhiwandi, Dombivali follows Thane → Maharashtra → 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 Bhiwandi's. Against Bhiwandi, Kalyan follows Thane → Maharashtra → 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 Bhiwandi's. Against Bhiwandi, Ulhasnagar follows Thane → Maharashtra → 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 Bhiwandi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 148 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bhiwandi's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1275901, the coordinate pair 19.3002 / 73.0588, country rank 65 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1272423 at 9.641 km bind Bhiwandi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bhiwandi's reference point is 19.3002° north and 73.0588° 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. Bhiwandi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bhiwandi's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bhiwandi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bhiwandi, 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
Bhiwandi's closest other entries in this atlas are Dombivali (9.641 km), Kalyan (10.216 km), Ulhasnagar (13.34 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.