1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
Compare this sourced profile of Delhi, 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 Delhi—11,034,555, 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: megacity and union territory of India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Delhi is GeoNames ID 1273294. Its recorded administrative path is Delhi → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Delhi 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.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Delhi ranks 16 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 2; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 11. Its 11,034,555 population value is 11.02 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 10.94 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Delhi falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's India population cohort. Delhi'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.
Delhi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Loni at 12.457 km with 516,082 recorded people; Ghaziabad at 20.317 km with 1,199,191 recorded people; Najafgarh at 25.018 km with 1,365,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 12.561 km. Compared with Loni, Delhi's recorded population is 21.38 times as large. Against Delhi, Loni follows Ghaziabad → Uttar Pradesh → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Delhi's. Against Delhi, Ghaziabad follows Ghaziabad → Uttar Pradesh → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Delhi's. Against Delhi, Najafgarh follows South West Delhi → Delhi → 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 Delhi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 185 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Delhi'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 1273294, the coordinate pair 28.6520 / 77.2315, country rank 2 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1264773 at 12.457 km bind Delhi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Delhi's reference point is 28.6520° north and 77.2315° 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. Delhi's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Delhi's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Delhi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Delhi, 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
Delhi's closest other entries in this atlas are Loni (12.457 km), Ghaziabad (20.317 km), Najafgarh (25.018 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-12-31; 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.