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 Coimbatore—2,136,916, 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 Tamil Nadu, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Coimbatore is GeoNames ID 1273865. Its recorded administrative path is Coimbatore → Tamil Nadu → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Coimbatore 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 2024-01-06; 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, Coimbatore ranks 189 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 14; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 115. Its 2,136,916 population value is 2.13 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 2.12 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Coimbatore falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Coimbatore's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Coimbatore's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tiruppur at 44.115 km with 963,173 recorded people; Erode at 91.121 km with 521,891 recorded people; Kozhikode at 132.147 km with 550,440 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 88.032 km. Compared with Tiruppur, Coimbatore's recorded population is 2.22 times as large. Against Coimbatore, Tiruppur follows Tiruppur → Tamil Nadu → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is below Coimbatore's. Against Coimbatore, Erode follows Erode → Tamil Nadu → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is below Coimbatore's. Against Coimbatore, Kozhikode follows Kozhikode → Kerala → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Coimbatore's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 390 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Coimbatore'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 1273865, the coordinate pair 11.0056 / 76.9661, country rank 14 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1254348 at 44.115 km bind Coimbatore to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Coimbatore's reference point is 11.0056° north and 76.9661° 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. Coimbatore's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Coimbatore's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Coimbatore's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Coimbatore at 411 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Coimbatore's closest other entries in this atlas are Tiruppur (44.115 km), Erode (91.121 km), Kozhikode (132.147 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-06; 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.