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 Kolhapur—549,236, 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 Maharashtra, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kolhapur is GeoNames ID 1266285. Its recorded administrative path is Kolhapur → Maharashtra → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Kolhāpur 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 2025-05-25; 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, Kolhapur ranks 1,018 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 91; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 541. Its 549,236 population value is 0.55 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.54 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kolhapur sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Kolhapur'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.
Kolhapur's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sangli at 39.556 km with 601,214 recorded people; Belagavi at 98.21 km with 490,045 recorded people; Hubballi at 178.208 km with 943,788 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 138.652 km. Compared with Sangli, Kolhapur's recorded population is 0.91 times as large. Against Kolhapur, Sangli follows Sangli → Maharashtra → 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 Kolhapur's. Against Kolhapur, Belagavi follows Belgaum → Karnataka → India in the source. Its point has lower 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 below Kolhapur's. Against Kolhapur, Hubballi follows Dharwad → Karnataka → India in the source. Its point has lower 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 Kolhapur's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 359 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kolhapur's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1266285, the coordinate pair 16.6956 / 74.2317, country rank 91 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1257416 at 39.556 km bind Kolhapur to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kolhapur's reference point is 16.6956° north and 74.2317° 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. Kolhapur's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kolhapur's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kolhapur's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kolhapur, 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
Kolhapur's closest other entries in this atlas are Sangli (39.556 km), Belagavi (98.21 km), Hubballi (178.208 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-25; 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.