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 Durgapur—518,872, 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 West Bengal, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Durgapur is GeoNames ID 1272175. Its recorded administrative path is Paschim Bardhaman → West Bengal → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Durgapur 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, Durgapur ranks 1,094 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 97; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 577. Its 518,872 population value is 0.52 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.51 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Durgapur sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Durgapur'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.
Durgapur's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Asansol at 37.966 km with 504,271 recorded people; Dhanbad at 94.763 km with 1,196,214 recorded people; Bokaro at 119.067 km with 564,319 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 81.101 km. Compared with Asansol, Durgapur's recorded population is 1.03 times as large. Against Durgapur, Asansol follows Paschim Bardhaman → West Bengal → 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 Durgapur's. Against Durgapur, Dhanbad follows Dhanbad → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Durgapur's. Against Durgapur, Bokaro follows Bokaro → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Durgapur's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 351 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Durgapur'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 1272175, the coordinate pair 23.5158 / 87.3080, country rank 97 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1278314 at 37.966 km bind Durgapur to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Durgapur's reference point is 23.5158° north and 87.3080° 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. Durgapur's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Durgapur's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Durgapur's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Durgapur, 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
Durgapur's closest other entries in this atlas are Asansol (37.966 km), Dhanbad (94.763 km), Bokaro (119.067 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.