1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Kemerovo, 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 Kemerovo—558,973, Asia/Novokuznetsk, 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 Kemerovo Oblast in the Asiatic part of Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kemerovo is GeoNames ID 1503901. Its recorded administrative path is Kuzbass → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kemerovo 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, Kemerovo ranks 996 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 30; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 91. Its 558,973 population value is 0.86 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.84 times the 664,046 regional median. Kemerovo sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Russia entries. Kemerovo'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.
Kemerovo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tomsk at 145.372 km with 574,002 recorded people; Novokuznetsk at 189.588 km with 539,616 recorded people; Novosibirsk at 204.721 km with 1,612,833 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 59.349 km. Compared with Tomsk, Kemerovo's recorded population is 0.97 times as large. Against Kemerovo, Tomsk follows Tomskiy Rayon → Tomsk Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Tomsk instead of Asia/Novokuznetsk, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Kemerovo's. Against Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk follows Kuzbass → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Novokuznetsk identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kemerovo's. Against Kemerovo, Novosibirsk follows Novosibirskiy Rayon → Novosibirsk Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Novosibirsk instead of Asia/Novokuznetsk, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Kemerovo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 863 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kemerovo'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 1503901, the coordinate pair 55.3542 / 86.1044, country rank 30 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 1489425 at 145.372 km bind Kemerovo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kemerovo's reference point is 55.3542° north and 86.1044° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Novokuznetsk is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Kemerovo's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Kemerovo's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kemerovo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kemerovo, 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
Kemerovo's closest other entries in this atlas are Tomsk (145.372 km), Novokuznetsk (189.588 km), Novosibirsk (204.721 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.