1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
Compare this sourced profile of Cuttack, India 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 Cuttack—610,189, 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: second largest city of Odisha, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Cuttack is GeoNames ID 1273780. Its recorded administrative path is Cuttack → Odisha → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Cuttack 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 2025-08-05; 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, Cuttack ranks 912 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 82; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 493. Its 610,189 population value is 0.61 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.61 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Cuttack sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Cuttack'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.
Cuttack's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bhubaneswar at 21.929 km with 885,363 recorded people; Jamshedpur at 261.872 km with 1,339,438 recorded people; Ranchi at 325.394 km with 1,120,374 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 303.465 km. Compared with Bhubaneswar, Cuttack's recorded population is 0.69 times as large. Against Cuttack, Bhubaneswar follows Khordha → Odisha → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is above Cuttack's. Against Cuttack, Jamshedpur follows Purba Singhbhum → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is above Cuttack's. Against Cuttack, Ranchi follows Ranchi → Jharkhand → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Cuttack's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 275 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cuttack's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1273780, the coordinate pair 20.4650 / 85.8793, country rank 82 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1275817 at 21.929 km bind Cuttack to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cuttack's reference point is 20.4650° north and 85.8793° 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. Cuttack's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Cuttack's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cuttack's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cuttack, 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
Cuttack's closest other entries in this atlas are Bhubaneswar (21.929 km), Jamshedpur (261.872 km), Ranchi (325.394 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-05; 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.