1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
Compare this sourced profile of Bhopal, India before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Bhopal—1,798,218, 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: metropolis and state capital in Madhya Pradesh, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bhopal is GeoNames ID 1275841. Its recorded administrative path is Bhopal → Madhya Pradesh → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Bhopal 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 2025-10-12; 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, Bhopal ranks 242 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 18; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 142. Its 1,798,218 population value is 1.80 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.78 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bhopal falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Bhopal'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.
Bhopal's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ujjain at 166.4 km with 515,215 recorded people; Indore at 171.399 km with 1,994,397 recorded people; Jabalpur at 260.487 km with 1,081,677 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 94.087 km. Compared with Ujjain, Bhopal's recorded population is 3.49 times as large. Against Bhopal, Ujjain follows Ujjain → Madhya Pradesh → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Bhopal's. Against Bhopal, Indore follows Indore → Madhya Pradesh → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Bhopal's. Against Bhopal, Jabalpur follows Jabalpur → Madhya Pradesh → 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 Bhopal's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 920 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bhopal'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 1275841, the coordinate pair 23.2547 / 77.4029, country rank 18 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1253914 at 166.4 km bind Bhopal to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bhopal's reference point is 23.2547° north and 77.4029° 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. Bhopal's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bhopal's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bhopal's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bhopal, 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
Bhopal's closest other entries in this atlas are Ujjain (166.4 km), Indore (171.399 km), Jabalpur (260.487 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-10-12; 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.