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 Bokaro—564,319, 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: human settlement in Bokaro district, North Chotanagpur division, Jharkhand, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bokaro is GeoNames ID 1275362. Its recorded administrative path is Bokaro → Jharkhand → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Bokāro 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 2024-01-07; 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, Bokaro ranks 988 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 88; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 527. Its 564,319 population value is 0.56 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.56 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bokaro sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Bokaro'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.
Bokaro's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dhanbad at 31.716 km with 1,196,214 recorded people; Asansol at 84.713 km with 504,271 recorded people; Ranchi at 93.223 km with 1,120,374 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 61.507 km. Compared with Dhanbad, Bokaro's recorded population is 0.47 times as large. Against Bokaro, Dhanbad follows Dhanbad → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Bokaro's. Against Bokaro, Asansol follows Paschim Bardhaman → West Bengal → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Bokaro's. Against Bokaro, Ranchi follows Ranchi → Jharkhand → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Bokaro's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 326 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bokaro's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1275362, the coordinate pair 23.6693 / 86.1516, country rank 88 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1272979 at 31.716 km bind Bokaro to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bokaro's reference point is 23.6693° north and 86.1516° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kolkata is shared by 109 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Bokaro's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bokaro's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bokaro's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bokaro, 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
Bokaro's closest other entries in this atlas are Dhanbad (31.716 km), Asansol (84.713 km), Ranchi (93.223 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-07; 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.