1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Ukraine
Compare this sourced profile of Kharkiv, Ukraine 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 Kharkiv—1,421,125, Europe/Kyiv, 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: capital city of Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kharkiv is GeoNames ID 706483. Its recorded administrative path is Kharkiv Raion → Kharkiv → Ukraine, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kharkiv 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 2026-07-02; 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, Kharkiv ranks 350 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected Ukraine entries it ranks 2; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 20. Its 1,421,125 population value is 1.58 times the 901,645 median for the country cohort and 2.14 times the 664,046 regional median. Kharkiv is rank 2 among the 9 selected Ukraine entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Kharkiv'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.
Kharkiv's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dnipro at 190.145 km with 968,502 recorded people; Donetsk at 245.307 km with 901,645 recorded people; Zaporizhzhya at 251.012 km with 710,052 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 60.867 km. Compared with Dnipro, Kharkiv's recorded population is 1.47 times as large. Against Kharkiv, Dnipro follows Dnipro raion → Dnipropetrovsk → Ukraine in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Ukraine cohort, uses the shared Europe/Kyiv identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kharkiv's. Against Kharkiv, Donetsk follows Donetsk Raion → Donetsk → Ukraine in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Ukraine cohort, uses the shared Europe/Kyiv identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kharkiv's. Against Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya follows Zaporizhzhya Raion → Zaporizhzhia → Ukraine in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Ukraine cohort, uses the shared Europe/Kyiv identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kharkiv's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 967 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kharkiv'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 706483, the coordinate pair 49.9818 / 36.2548, country rank 2 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 709930 at 190.145 km bind Kharkiv to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kharkiv's reference point is 49.9818° north and 36.2548° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Kyiv is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Kharkiv's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kharkiv's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kharkiv's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Kharkiv at 94 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kharkiv's closest other entries in this atlas are Dnipro (190.145 km), Donetsk (245.307 km), Zaporizhzhya (251.012 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-02; 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.