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 Kanayannur—851,406, 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 Kanayannur is GeoNames ID 12501153. Its recorded administrative path is Ernakulam → Kerala → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Kanayannur 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, Kanayannur ranks 653 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 67; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 379. Its 851,406 population value is 0.85 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.84 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kanayannur sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Kanayannur'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.
Kanayannur's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kochi at 3.062 km with 633,553 recorded people; Coimbatore at 138.538 km with 2,136,916 recorded people; Kozhikode at 152.069 km with 550,440 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 149.007 km. Compared with Kochi, Kanayannur's recorded population is 1.34 times as large. Against Kanayannur, Kochi follows Ernakulam → Kerala → 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 Kanayannur's. Against Kanayannur, Coimbatore follows Coimbatore → Tamil Nadu → 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 above Kanayannur's. Against Kanayannur, Kozhikode follows Kozhikode → Kerala → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Kanayannur's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 20 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kanayannur'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 12501153, the coordinate pair 9.9667 / 76.2667, country rank 67 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1273874 at 3.062 km bind Kanayannur to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kanayannur's reference point is 9.9667° north and 76.2667° 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. Kanayannur's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kanayannur's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kanayannur's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kanayannur, 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
Kanayannur's closest other entries in this atlas are Kochi (3.062 km), Coimbatore (138.538 km), Kozhikode (152.069 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.