1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Kazan, Russia 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 Kazan—1,243,500, Europe/Moscow, 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 the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kazan is GeoNames ID 551487. Its recorded administrative path is Gorodskoy Okrug Kazan' → Tatarstan Republic → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kazan 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, Kazan ranks 417 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 6; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 24. Its 1,243,500 population value is 1.92 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 1.87 times the 664,046 regional median. Kazan falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Russia population cohort. Kazan'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.
Kazan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Cheboksary at 122.858 km with 492,331 recorded people; Ulyanovsk at 169.019 km with 626,540 recorded people; Naberezhnyye Chelny at 206.351 km with 509,870 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 83.493 km. Compared with Cheboksary, Kazan's recorded population is 2.53 times as large. Against Kazan, Cheboksary follows Cheboksarskiy Rayon → Chuvash Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kazan's. Against Kazan, Ulyanovsk follows Ulyanovskiy Rayon → Ulyanovsk → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Ulyanovsk instead of Europe/Moscow, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kazan's. Against Kazan, Naberezhnyye Chelny follows Tukayevskiy Rayon → Tatarstan Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kazan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 781 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kazan'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 551487, the coordinate pair 55.7887 / 49.1221, country rank 6 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 569696 at 122.858 km bind Kazan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kazan's reference point is 55.7887° north and 49.1221° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Moscow is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Kazan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kazan's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kazan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kazan, 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
Kazan's closest other entries in this atlas are Cheboksary (122.858 km), Ulyanovsk (169.019 km), Naberezhnyye Chelny (206.351 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.