1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
Compare this sourced profile of Kota, 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 Kota—1,001,694, 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 on the Chambal River in Rajasthan, northern India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kota is GeoNames ID 1266049. Its recorded administrative path is Kota → Rajasthan → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Kota 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 2026-01-15; 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, Kota ranks 550 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 55; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 319. Its 1,001,694 population value is 1.00 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.99 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kota sits in the second quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Kota's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kota's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ajmer at 185.378 km with 542,321 recorded people; Jaipur at 193.222 km with 3,046,163 recorded people; Ujjain at 222.497 km with 515,215 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 37.119 km. Compared with Ajmer, Kota's recorded population is 1.85 times as large. Against Kota, Ajmer follows Ajmer → Rajasthan → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Kota's. Against Kota, Jaipur follows Jaipur → Rajasthan → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Kota's. Against Kota, Ujjain follows Ujjain → Madhya Pradesh → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower 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 Kota's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 959 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kota'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 1266049, the coordinate pair 25.1825 / 75.8391, country rank 55 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1279159 at 185.378 km bind Kota to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kota's reference point is 25.1825° north and 75.8391° 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. Kota's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kota's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kota's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kota, 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
Kota's closest other entries in this atlas are Ajmer (185.378 km), Jaipur (193.222 km), Ujjain (222.497 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-15; 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.