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 Guwahati—962,334, 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: largest city in the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in Northeastern India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Guwahati is GeoNames ID 1271476. Its recorded administrative path is Kamrup Metropolitan → Assam → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Guwahati 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 2025-02-25; 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, Guwahati ranks 579 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 59; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 336. Its 962,334 population value is 0.96 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.95 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Guwahati sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Guwahati'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.
Guwahati's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Rangpur at 254.043 km with 1,031,388 recorded people; Gazipur at 277.201 km with 2,674,697 recorded people; Dhaka at 306.399 km with 10,356,500 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 52.356 km. Compared with Rangpur, Guwahati's recorded population is 0.93 times as large. Against Guwahati, Rangpur follows Rangpur → Rangpur Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Bangladesh cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Dhaka instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Guwahati's. Against Guwahati, Gazipur follows Gazipur → Dhaka Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Bangladesh cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Dhaka instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Guwahati's. Against Guwahati, Dhaka follows Dhaka → Dhaka Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Bangladesh cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Dhaka instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Guwahati's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,072 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Guwahati'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 1271476, the coordinate pair 26.1844 / 91.7458, country rank 59 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1185188 at 254.043 km bind Guwahati to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Guwahati's reference point is 26.1844° north and 91.7458° 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. Guwahati's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Guwahati's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Guwahati's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Guwahati, 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
Guwahati's closest other entries in this atlas are Rangpur (254.043 km), Gazipur (277.201 km), Dhaka (306.399 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-25; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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