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 Kalyan—1,262,255, 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 Maharashtra, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kalyan is GeoNames ID 1268295. Its recorded administrative path is Thane → Maharashtra → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Kalyān 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, Kalyan ranks 405 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 34; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 239. Its 1,262,255 population value is 1.26 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.25 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kalyan sits in the second quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Kalyan'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.
Kalyan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ulhasnagar at 3.367 km with 516,584 recorded people; Dombivali at 6.251 km with 1,247,327 recorded people; Bhiwandi at 10.216 km with 874,032 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 6.849 km. Compared with Ulhasnagar, Kalyan's recorded population is 2.44 times as large. Against Kalyan, Ulhasnagar follows Thane → Maharashtra → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is below Kalyan's. Against Kalyan, Dombivali follows Thane → Maharashtra → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Kalyan's. Against Kalyan, Bhiwandi follows Thane → Maharashtra → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Kalyan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 25 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kalyan'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 1268295, the coordinate pair 19.2437 / 73.1355, country rank 34 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1253894 at 3.367 km bind Kalyan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kalyan's reference point is 19.2437° north and 73.1355° 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. Kalyan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kalyan's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kalyan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kalyan, 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
Kalyan's closest other entries in this atlas are Ulhasnagar (3.367 km), Dombivali (6.251 km), Bhiwandi (10.216 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.