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 Bikaner—644,406, 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 Bikaner district, Rajasthan, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bikaner is GeoNames ID 1275665. Its recorded administrative path is Bikaner → Rajasthan → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Bikaner 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 2025-08-05; 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, Bikaner ranks 863 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 79; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 474. Its 644,406 population value is 0.64 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.64 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bikaner sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Bikaner'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.
Bikaner's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jodhpur at 196.892 km with 1,056,191 recorded people; Ajmer at 217.782 km with 542,321 recorded people; Bahawalpur at 221.639 km with 903,795 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 24.747 km. Compared with Jodhpur, Bikaner's recorded population is 0.61 times as large. Against Bikaner, Jodhpur follows Jodhpur → Rajasthan → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Bikaner's. Against Bikaner, Ajmer follows Ajmer → Rajasthan → 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 Bikaner's. Against Bikaner, Bahawalpur follows Bahawalpur District → Punjab → Pakistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Pakistan cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Karachi instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Bikaner's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 986 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bikaner'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 1275665, the coordinate pair 28.0176 / 73.3150, country rank 79 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1268865 at 196.892 km bind Bikaner to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bikaner's reference point is 28.0176° north and 73.3150° 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. Bikaner's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bikaner's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bikaner's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bikaner, 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
Bikaner's closest other entries in this atlas are Jodhpur (196.892 km), Ajmer (217.782 km), Bahawalpur (221.639 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-05; 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.