1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Kazakhstan
Compare this sourced profile of Karagandy, Kazakhstan 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 Karagandy—497,777, Asia/Almaty, 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 Karagandy is GeoNames ID 609655. Its recorded administrative path is Karaganda Gorodskaya Administratsiya → Karaganda → Kazakhstan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Karagandy 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 2026-04-14; 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, Karagandy ranks 1,154 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected Kazakhstan entries it ranks 5; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 610. Its 497,777 population value is 0.41 times the 1,200,000 median for the country cohort and 0.49 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Karagandy is rank 5 among the 5 selected Kazakhstan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Karagandy's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Karagandy's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Astana at 192.894 km with 1,544,142 recorded people; Omsk at 577.447 km with 1,172,070 recorded people; Bishkek at 779.163 km with 900,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 586.269 km. Compared with Astana, Karagandy's recorded population is 0.32 times as large. Against Karagandy, Astana follows Astana → Kazakhstan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Kazakhstan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Almaty identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Karagandy's. Against Karagandy, Omsk follows Omsk Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Russia cohort rather than Kazakhstan, uses Asia/Omsk instead of Asia/Almaty, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Karagandy's. Against Karagandy, Bishkek follows Bishkek → Kyrgyzstan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Kyrgyzstan cohort rather than Kazakhstan, uses Asia/Bishkek instead of Asia/Almaty, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Karagandy's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 975 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Karagandy'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 609655, the coordinate pair 49.8019 / 73.1021, country rank 5 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 1526273 at 192.894 km bind Karagandy to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Karagandy's reference point is 49.8019° north and 73.1021° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Almaty is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Karagandy's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Karagandy's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Karagandy's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Karagandy, 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
Karagandy's closest other entries in this atlas are Astana (192.894 km), Omsk (577.447 km), Bishkek (779.163 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.