Chandigarh

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Chandigarh is GeoNames ID 1274746. Its recorded administrative path is Chandigarh → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat.

Chandigarh 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 2024-12-31; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Chandigarh ranks 574 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 57; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 332.

Its 970,602 population value is 0.97 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.96 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Chandigarh sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries.

Chandigarh'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

Chandigarh's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ludhiana at 91.358 km with 1,618,879 recorded people; Saharanpur at 112.132 km with 484,873 recorded people; Dehradun at 127.782 km with 522,081 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 36.424 km. Compared with Ludhiana, Chandigarh's recorded population is 0.60 times as large. Against Chandigarh, Ludhiana follows Ludhiana → Punjab → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat.

Its recorded population is above Chandigarh's. Against Chandigarh, Saharanpur follows District Saharanpur → Uttar 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 Chandigarh's. Against Chandigarh, Dehradun follows Dehradun → Uttarakhand → 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 first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Chandigarh's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 658 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Chandigarh'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 1274746, the coordinate pair 30.7363 / 76.7884, country rank 57 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1264728 at 91.358 km bind Chandigarh to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Chandigarh's reference point is 30.7363° north and 76.7884° 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. Chandigarh's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.

Chandigarh's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Chandigarh's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Chandigarh, 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.