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 Erode—521,891, 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: Village in Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Erode is GeoNames ID 1272013. Its recorded administrative path is Erode → Tamil Nadu → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Erode 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, Erode ranks 1,086 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 96; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 574. Its 521,891 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. Erode sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Erode'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.
Erode's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tiruppur at 47.885 km with 963,173 recorded people; Salem at 58.054 km with 917,414 recorded people; Coimbatore at 91.121 km with 2,136,916 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 43.236 km. Compared with Tiruppur, Erode's recorded population is 0.54 times as large. Against Erode, Tiruppur follows Tiruppur → Tamil Nadu → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is above Erode's. Against Erode, Salem follows Salem → Tamil Nadu → 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 Erode's. Against Erode, Coimbatore follows Coimbatore → Tamil Nadu → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is above Erode's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 414 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Erode'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 1272013, the coordinate pair 11.3428 / 77.7274, country rank 96 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1254348 at 47.885 km bind Erode to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Erode's reference point is 11.3428° north and 77.7274° 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. Erode's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Erode's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Erode's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Erode, 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
Erode's closest other entries in this atlas are Tiruppur (47.885 km), Salem (58.054 km), Coimbatore (91.121 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.