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 Gurgaon—886,519, 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 Haryana, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Gurgaon is GeoNames ID 1270642. Its recorded administrative path is Gurugram district → Haryana → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Gurugram 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 2025-01-02; 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, Gurgaon ranks 628 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 63; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 362. Its 886,519 population value is 0.89 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.88 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Gurgaon sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Gurgaon'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.
Gurgaon's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Najafgarh at 17.193 km with 1,365,000 recorded people; Faridabad at 28.566 km with 1,414,050 recorded people; Delhi at 29.266 km with 11,034,555 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 12.073 km. Compared with Najafgarh, Gurgaon's recorded population is 0.65 times as large. Against Gurgaon, Najafgarh follows South West Delhi → Delhi → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Gurgaon's. Against Gurgaon, Faridabad follows Faridabad District → Haryana → 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 above Gurgaon's. Against Gurgaon, Delhi follows Delhi → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Gurgaon's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 240 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Gurgaon'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 1270642, the coordinate pair 28.4601 / 77.0264, country rank 63 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1262111 at 17.193 km bind Gurgaon to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Gurgaon's reference point is 28.4601° north and 77.0264° 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. Gurgaon's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Gurgaon's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Gurgaon's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Gurgaon, 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
Gurgaon's closest other entries in this atlas are Najafgarh (17.193 km), Faridabad (28.566 km), Delhi (29.266 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-01-02; 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.