1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Bangladesh
Compare this sourced profile of Khulna, Bangladesh 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 Khulna—1,500,689, Asia/Dhaka, 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: 3rd largest city of Bangladesh.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Khulna is GeoNames ID 1336135. Its recorded administrative path is Khulna → Khulna Division → Bangladesh, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Khulna 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 2026-04-13; 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, Khulna ranks 315 by recorded population. Inside the 10 selected Bangladesh entries it ranks 4; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 181. Its 1,500,689 population value is 1.67 times the 897,484 median for the country cohort and 1.49 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Khulna sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Bangladesh population cohort. Khulna'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.
Khulna's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bhatpara at 119.374 km with 483,129 recorded people; Kolkata at 126.275 km with 4,631,392 recorded people; Howrah at 130.402 km with 1,027,672 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 11.028 km. Compared with Bhatpara, Khulna's recorded population is 3.11 times as large. Against Khulna, Bhatpara follows North 24 Parganas → West Bengal → India in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected India cohort rather than Bangladesh, uses Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Dhaka, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Khulna's. Against Khulna, Kolkata follows Kolkata → West Bengal → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected India cohort rather than Bangladesh, uses Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Dhaka, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Khulna's. Against Khulna, Howrah follows Haora → West Bengal → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected India cohort rather than Bangladesh, uses Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Dhaka, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Khulna's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 771 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Khulna'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 1336135, the coordinate pair 22.8098 / 89.5644, country rank 4 of 10, and neighbor GeoNames 1276058 at 119.374 km bind Khulna to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Khulna's reference point is 22.8098° north and 89.5644° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Dhaka is shared by 10 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Khulna's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Khulna's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Khulna's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Khulna, 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
Khulna's closest other entries in this atlas are Bhatpara (119.374 km), Kolkata (126.275 km), Howrah (130.402 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.