1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
Compare this sourced profile of Howrah, 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 Howrah—1,027,672, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Howrah is GeoNames ID 1270396. Its recorded administrative path is Haora → West Bengal → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Howrah 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 2024-04-28; 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, Howrah ranks 529 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 52; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 308. Its 1,027,672 population value is 1.03 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.02 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Howrah sits in the second quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Howrah'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.
Howrah's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kolkata at 4.833 km with 4,631,392 recorded people; Bhatpara at 33.291 km with 483,129 recorded people; Khulna at 130.402 km with 1,500,689 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 125.569 km. Compared with Kolkata, Howrah's recorded population is 0.22 times as large. Against Howrah, Kolkata follows Kolkata → West Bengal → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Howrah's. Against Howrah, Bhatpara follows North 24 Parganas → West Bengal → 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 below Howrah's. Against Howrah, Khulna follows Khulna → Khulna Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher 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 Howrah's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 41 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Howrah's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth 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 1270396, the coordinate pair 22.5769 / 88.3186, country rank 52 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1275004 at 4.833 km bind Howrah to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Howrah's reference point is 22.5769° north and 88.3186° 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. Howrah's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Howrah's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Howrah's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Howrah, 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
Howrah's closest other entries in this atlas are Kolkata (4.833 km), Bhatpara (33.291 km), Khulna (130.402 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-04-28; 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.