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 Kallakurichi—1,682,687, 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 Kallakurichi is GeoNames ID 12165956. Its recorded administrative path is Kallakurichi district → Tamil Nadu → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Kallakurichi 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 2024-01-06; 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, Kallakurichi ranks 266 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 22; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 155. Its 1,682,687 population value is 1.68 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.67 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kallakurichi falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Kallakurichi's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kallakurichi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Salem at 87.982 km with 917,414 recorded people; Pondicherry at 97.318 km with 657,209 recorded people; Tiruchirappalli at 106.053 km with 1,022,518 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 18.071 km. Compared with Salem, Kallakurichi's recorded population is 1.83 times as large. Against Kallakurichi, Salem follows Salem → Tamil Nadu → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kallakurichi's. Against Kallakurichi, Pondicherry follows Puducherry → 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 below Kallakurichi's. Against Kallakurichi, Tiruchirappalli follows Tiruchirappalli → Tamil Nadu → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kallakurichi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 647 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kallakurichi'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 12165956, the coordinate pair 11.7338 / 78.9593, country rank 22 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1257629 at 87.982 km bind Kallakurichi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kallakurichi's reference point is 11.7338° north and 78.9593° 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. Kallakurichi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kallakurichi's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kallakurichi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kallakurichi, 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
Kallakurichi's closest other entries in this atlas are Salem (87.982 km), Pondicherry (97.318 km), Tiruchirappalli (106.053 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-06; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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