1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Ukraine
Compare this sourced profile of Kyiv, Ukraine 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 Kyiv—2,952,301, Europe/Kyiv, 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 and largest city of Ukraine.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kyiv is GeoNames ID 703448. Its recorded administrative path is Kyiv City → Ukraine, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Kyiv 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 2026-03-29; 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, Kyiv ranks 121 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected Ukraine entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 6. Its 2,952,301 population value is 3.27 times the 901,645 median for the country cohort and 4.45 times the 664,046 regional median. Kyiv is rank 1 among the 9 selected Ukraine entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Kyiv'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.
Kyiv's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Homyel' at 222.361 km with 501,193 recorded people; Kryvyy Rih at 351.875 km with 603,904 recorded people; Dnipro at 394.143 km with 968,502 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 171.782 km. Compared with Homyel', Kyiv's recorded population is 5.89 times as large. Against Kyiv, Homyel' follows Homyel' Voblasc' → Belarus in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Belarus cohort rather than Ukraine, uses Europe/Minsk instead of Europe/Kyiv, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kyiv's. Against Kyiv, Kryvyy Rih follows Kryvyy Rih Raion → Dnipropetrovsk → Ukraine in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Ukraine cohort, uses the shared Europe/Kyiv identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kyiv's. Against Kyiv, Dnipro follows Dnipro raion → Dnipropetrovsk → Ukraine in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Ukraine cohort, uses the shared Europe/Kyiv identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kyiv's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,033 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kyiv'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 703448, the coordinate pair 50.4547 / 30.5238, country rank 1 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 627907 at 222.361 km bind Kyiv to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kyiv's reference point is 50.4547° north and 30.5238° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Kyiv is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Kyiv's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Kyiv's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kyiv's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Kyiv at 179 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kyiv's closest other entries in this atlas are Homyel' (222.361 km), Kryvyy Rih (351.875 km), Dnipro (394.143 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-03-29; 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.