1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Cheboksary, Russia 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 Cheboksary—492,331, Europe/Moscow, 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 central Russia, capital of the Chuvash Republic.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Cheboksary is GeoNames ID 569696. Its recorded administrative path is Cheboksarskiy Rayon → Chuvash Republic → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Cheboksary 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 2026-04-14; 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, Cheboksary ranks 1,162 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 38; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 117. Its 492,331 population value is 0.76 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.74 times the 664,046 regional median. Cheboksary sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Russia entries. Cheboksary'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.
Cheboksary's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kazan at 122.858 km with 1,243,500 recorded people; Nizhniy Novgorod at 201.67 km with 1,259,013 recorded people; Ulyanovsk at 213.222 km with 626,540 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 90.364 km. Compared with Kazan, Cheboksary's recorded population is 0.40 times as large. Against Cheboksary, Kazan follows Gorodskoy Okrug Kazan' → Tatarstan Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Cheboksary's. Against Cheboksary, Nizhniy Novgorod follows Nizhny Novgorod Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Cheboksary's. Against Cheboksary, Ulyanovsk follows Ulyanovskiy Rayon → Ulyanovsk → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Ulyanovsk instead of Europe/Moscow, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Cheboksary's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 781 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cheboksary'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 569696, the coordinate pair 56.1322 / 47.2460, country rank 38 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 551487 at 122.858 km bind Cheboksary to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cheboksary's reference point is 56.1322° north and 47.2460° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Moscow is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Cheboksary's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Cheboksary's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cheboksary's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cheboksary, 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
Cheboksary's closest other entries in this atlas are Kazan (122.858 km), Nizhniy Novgorod (201.67 km), Ulyanovsk (213.222 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.