1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Kyrgyzstan
Compare this sourced profile of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 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 Bishkek—900,000, Asia/Bishkek, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bishkek is GeoNames ID 1528675. Its recorded administrative path is Bishkek → Kyrgyzstan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Bishkek 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 2025-08-22; 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, Bishkek ranks 618 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Kyrgyzstan entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 358. Its 900,000 population value is 1.00 times the 900,000 median for the country cohort and 0.89 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bishkek is rank 1 among the 1 selected Kyrgyzstan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Bishkek'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.
Bishkek's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Almaty at 193.332 km with 1,977,011 recorded people; Andijan at 297.064 km with 747,800 recorded people; Namangan at 318.64 km with 713,220 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 125.308 km. Compared with Almaty, Bishkek's recorded population is 0.46 times as large. Against Bishkek, Almaty follows Almaty → Kazakhstan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Kazakhstan cohort rather than Kyrgyzstan, uses Asia/Almaty instead of Asia/Bishkek, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Bishkek's. Against Bishkek, Andijan follows Andijan Region → Uzbekistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Uzbekistan cohort rather than Kyrgyzstan, uses Asia/Tashkent instead of Asia/Bishkek, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Bishkek's. Against Bishkek, Namangan follows Namangan → Uzbekistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Uzbekistan cohort rather than Kyrgyzstan, uses Asia/Tashkent instead of Asia/Bishkek, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Bishkek's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 977 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bishkek'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 1528675, the coordinate pair 42.8700 / 74.5900, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 1526384 at 193.332 km bind Bishkek to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bishkek's reference point is 42.8700° north and 74.5900° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Bishkek is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Bishkek's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Bishkek's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bishkek's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bishkek, 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
Bishkek's closest other entries in this atlas are Almaty (193.332 km), Andijan (297.064 km), Namangan (318.64 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-22; 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.