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 Dehradun—522,081, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dehradun is GeoNames ID 1273313. Its recorded administrative path is Dehradun → Uttarakhand → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Dehradun 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 2026-01-22; 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, Dehradun ranks 1,085 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 95; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 573. Its 522,081 population value is 0.52 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.52 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Dehradun sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Dehradun'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.
Dehradun's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Saharanpur at 61.48 km with 484,873 recorded people; Chandigarh at 127.782 km with 970,602 recorded people; Meerut at 152.806 km with 1,223,184 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 91.326 km. Compared with Saharanpur, Dehradun's recorded population is 1.08 times as large. Against Dehradun, Saharanpur follows District Saharanpur → Uttar Pradesh → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Dehradun's. Against Dehradun, Chandigarh follows Chandigarh → 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 the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Dehradun's. Against Dehradun, Meerut follows Meerut → Uttar Pradesh → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Dehradun's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 511 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dehradun'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 1273313, the coordinate pair 30.3244 / 78.0339, country rank 95 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1257806 at 61.48 km bind Dehradun to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dehradun's reference point is 30.3244° north and 78.0339° 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. Dehradun's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dehradun's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dehradun's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dehradun, 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
Dehradun's closest other entries in this atlas are Saharanpur (61.48 km), Chandigarh (127.782 km), Meerut (152.806 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-22; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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