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Compare this sourced profile of Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), 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 Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)—674,246, 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 Uttar Pradesh, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) is GeoNames ID 1270927. Its recorded administrative path is Gorakhpur → Uttar Pradesh → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Gorakhpur appears on 2 separate GeoNames rows in this atlas, so the qualifier “Uttar Pradesh” and numeric ID prevent those places from being merged. 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, Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) ranks 818 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 75; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 458. Its 674,246 population value is 0.67 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.67 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'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.
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'s three nearest other atlas coordinates are Varanasi at 165.119 km with 1,164,404 recorded people; Pokhara at 177.027 km with 600,051 recorded people; Prayagraj at 211.656 km with 1,073,438 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 46.537 km. Compared with Varanasi, Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'s recorded population is 0.58 times as large. Against Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), Varanasi follows Varanasi → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'s. Against Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), Pokhara follows Kaski → Gandaki Pradesh → Nepal in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Nepal cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Kathmandu instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'s. Against Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), Prayagraj follows Prayagraj → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'s. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 915 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'s nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half 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 1270927, the coordinate pair 26.7663 / 83.3689, country rank 75 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1253405 at 165.119 km bind Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'s reference point is 26.7663° north and 83.3689° 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. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'s row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'s point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'s time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), 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
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)'s closest other entries in this atlas are Varanasi (165.119 km), Pokhara (177.027 km), Prayagraj (211.656 km).
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
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.