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 Bhubaneswar—885,363, 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 Odisha, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bhubaneswar is GeoNames ID 1275817. Its recorded administrative path is Khordha → Odisha → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Bhubaneswar 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 2026-03-27; 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, Bhubaneswar ranks 629 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 64; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 363. Its 885,363 population value is 0.88 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.88 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bhubaneswar sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Bhubaneswar'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.
Bhubaneswar's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Cuttack at 21.929 km with 610,189 recorded people; Jamshedpur at 283.704 km with 1,339,438 recorded people; Ranchi at 345.716 km with 1,120,374 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 323.787 km. Compared with Cuttack, Bhubaneswar's recorded population is 1.45 times as large. Against Bhubaneswar, Cuttack follows Cuttack → Odisha → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Bhubaneswar's. Against Bhubaneswar, Jamshedpur follows Purba Singhbhum → Jharkhand → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Bhubaneswar's. Against Bhubaneswar, Ranchi follows Ranchi → Jharkhand → 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 first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Bhubaneswar's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 275 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bhubaneswar'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 1275817, the coordinate pair 20.2724 / 85.8339, country rank 64 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1273780 at 21.929 km bind Bhubaneswar to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bhubaneswar's reference point is 20.2724° north and 85.8339° 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. Bhubaneswar's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bhubaneswar's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bhubaneswar's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bhubaneswar, 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
Bhubaneswar's closest other entries in this atlas are Cuttack (21.929 km), Jamshedpur (283.704 km), Ranchi (345.716 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-03-27; 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.