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 Dhanbad—1,196,214, 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 of Jharkhand, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dhanbad is GeoNames ID 1272979. Its recorded administrative path is Dhanbad → Jharkhand → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Dhanbad 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 2024-01-07; 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, Dhanbad ranks 448 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 41; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 264. Its 1,196,214 population value is 1.19 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.19 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Dhanbad sits in the second quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Dhanbad'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.
Dhanbad's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bokaro at 31.716 km with 564,319 recorded people; Asansol at 57.744 km with 504,271 recorded people; Durgapur at 94.763 km with 518,872 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 63.047 km. Compared with Bokaro, Dhanbad's recorded population is 2.12 times as large. Against Dhanbad, Bokaro follows Bokaro → Jharkhand → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Dhanbad's. Against Dhanbad, Asansol follows Paschim Bardhaman → West Bengal → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Dhanbad's. Against Dhanbad, Durgapur follows Paschim Bardhaman → West Bengal → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Dhanbad's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 326 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dhanbad'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 1272979, the coordinate pair 23.7976 / 86.4299, country rank 41 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1275362 at 31.716 km bind Dhanbad to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dhanbad's reference point is 23.7976° north and 86.4299° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kolkata is shared by 109 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Dhanbad's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dhanbad's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dhanbad's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dhanbad, 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
Dhanbad's closest other entries in this atlas are Bokaro (31.716 km), Asansol (57.744 km), Durgapur (94.763 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-07; 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.