1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Belarus
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Homyel'—501,193, Europe/Minsk, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Homyel' is GeoNames ID 627907. Its recorded administrative path is Homyel' Voblasc' → Belarus, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Homyel' 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 2026-07-09; 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, Homyel' ranks 1,141 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Belarus entries it ranks 2; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 115. Its 501,193 population value is 0.45 times the 1,121,659 median for the country cohort and 0.75 times the 664,046 regional median. Homyel' is rank 2 among the 2 selected Belarus entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Homyel''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.
Homyel''s three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kyiv at 222.361 km with 2,952,301 recorded people; Minsk at 279.586 km with 1,742,124 recorded people; Vilnius at 451.84 km with 542,366 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 229.479 km. Compared with Kyiv, Homyel''s recorded population is 0.17 times as large. Against Homyel', Kyiv follows Kyiv City → Ukraine in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Ukraine cohort rather than Belarus, uses Europe/Kyiv instead of Europe/Minsk, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Homyel''s. Against Homyel', Minsk follows Minsk City → Belarus in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Belarus cohort, uses the shared Europe/Minsk identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Homyel''s. Against Homyel', Vilnius follows Vilnius → Lithuania in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Lithuania cohort rather than Belarus, uses Europe/Vilnius instead of Europe/Minsk, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Homyel''s. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,033 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Homyel''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 627907, the coordinate pair 52.4345 / 30.9754, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 703448 at 222.361 km bind Homyel' to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Homyel''s reference point is 52.4345° north and 30.9754° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Minsk is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Homyel''s row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Homyel''s point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Homyel''s time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Homyel', 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
Homyel''s closest other entries in this atlas are Kyiv (222.361 km), Minsk (279.586 km), Vilnius (451.84 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-09; 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.