1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
Compare this sourced profile of Kanpur, 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 Kanpur—2,823,249, 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 Uttar Pradesh, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kanpur is GeoNames ID 1267995. Its recorded administrative path is Kanpur → Uttar Pradesh → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Kanpur 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 2025-03-09; 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, Kanpur ranks 127 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 11; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 84. Its 2,823,249 population value is 2.82 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 2.80 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kanpur falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's India population cohort. Kanpur's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kanpur's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Lucknow at 70.547 km with 2,472,011 recorded people; Prayagraj at 187.535 km with 1,073,438 recorded people; Gwalior at 218.434 km with 1,054,420 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 147.887 km. Compared with Lucknow, Kanpur's recorded population is 1.14 times as large. Against Kanpur, Lucknow follows Lucknow District → Uttar Pradesh → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Kanpur's. Against Kanpur, Prayagraj follows Prayagraj → Uttar Pradesh → 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 Kanpur's. Against Kanpur, Gwalior follows Gwalior → Madhya Pradesh → 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 Kanpur's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 556 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kanpur's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1267995, the coordinate pair 26.4652 / 80.3498, country rank 11 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1264733 at 70.547 km bind Kanpur to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kanpur's reference point is 26.4652° north and 80.3498° 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. Kanpur's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kanpur's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kanpur's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kanpur, 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
Kanpur's closest other entries in this atlas are Lucknow (70.547 km), Prayagraj (187.535 km), Gwalior (218.434 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-03-09; 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.