1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kochi—633,553, Asia/Kolkata, 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 Kerala, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kochi is GeoNames ID 1273874. Its recorded administrative path is Ernakulam → Kerala → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Kochi 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 2025-06-06; 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, Kochi ranks 881 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 80; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 482. Its 633,553 population value is 0.63 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.63 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kochi sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Kochi'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.
Kochi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kanayannur at 3.062 km with 851,406 recorded people; Coimbatore at 141.417 km with 2,136,916 recorded people; Kozhikode at 154.624 km with 550,440 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 151.562 km. Compared with Kanayannur, Kochi's recorded population is 0.74 times as large. Against Kochi, Kanayannur follows Ernakulam → Kerala → India in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Kochi's. Against Kochi, Coimbatore follows Coimbatore → Tamil Nadu → India in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Kochi's. Against Kochi, Kozhikode follows Kozhikode → Kerala → India in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Kochi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 20 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kochi's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. 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 1273874, the coordinate pair 9.9399 / 76.2602, country rank 80 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 12501153 at 3.062 km bind Kochi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kochi's reference point is 9.9399° north and 76.2602° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kolkata is shared by 109 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Kochi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kochi's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kochi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kochi, 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
Kochi's closest other entries in this atlas are Kanayannur (3.062 km), Coimbatore (141.417 km), Kozhikode (154.624 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-06; 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.