1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
Compare this sourced profile of Kolkata, India 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 Kolkata—4,631,392, 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: capital city of West Bengal, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kolkata is GeoNames ID 1275004. Its recorded administrative path is Kolkata → West Bengal → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kolkata 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 2024-05-27; 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, Kolkata ranks 67 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 7; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 42. Its 4,631,392 population value is 4.62 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 4.59 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kolkata falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's India population cohort. Kolkata's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kolkata's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Howrah at 4.833 km with 1,027,672 recorded people; Bhatpara at 34.006 km with 483,129 recorded people; Khulna at 126.275 km with 1,500,689 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 121.442 km. Compared with Howrah, Kolkata's recorded population is 4.51 times as large. Against Kolkata, Howrah follows Haora → West Bengal → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kolkata's. Against Kolkata, Bhatpara follows North 24 Parganas → West Bengal → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kolkata's. Against Kolkata, Khulna follows Khulna → Khulna Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Bangladesh cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Dhaka instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kolkata's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 41 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kolkata'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 1275004, the coordinate pair 22.5626 / 88.3630, country rank 7 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1270396 at 4.833 km bind Kolkata to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kolkata's reference point is 22.5626° north and 88.3630° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kolkata is shared by 109 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Kolkata's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kolkata's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kolkata's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kolkata, 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
Kolkata's closest other entries in this atlas are Howrah (4.833 km), Bhatpara (34.006 km), Khulna (126.275 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-05-27; 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.