1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
Compare this sourced profile of Madurai, 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 Madurai—1,465,625, 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 of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Madurai is GeoNames ID 1264521. Its recorded administrative path is Madurai → Tamil Nadu → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Madurai 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 2024-01-06; 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, Madurai ranks 329 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 25; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 188. Its 1,465,625 population value is 1.46 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.45 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Madurai falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Madurai's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Madurai's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tiruchirappalli at 117.984 km with 1,022,518 recorded people; Tirunelveli at 140.86 km with 1,435,844 recorded people; Tiruppur at 157.138 km with 963,173 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 39.154 km. Compared with Tiruchirappalli, Madurai's recorded population is 1.43 times as large. Against Madurai, Tiruchirappalli follows Tiruchirappalli → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Madurai's. Against Madurai, Tirunelveli follows Tirunelveli Kattabo → Tamil Nadu → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Madurai's. Against Madurai, Tiruppur follows Tiruppur → Tamil Nadu → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Madurai's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 764 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Madurai'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 1264521, the coordinate pair 9.9190 / 78.1195, country rank 25 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1254388 at 117.984 km bind Madurai to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Madurai's reference point is 9.9190° north and 78.1195° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kolkata is shared by 109 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Madurai's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Madurai's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Madurai's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Madurai, 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
Madurai's closest other entries in this atlas are Tiruchirappalli (117.984 km), Tirunelveli (140.86 km), Tiruppur (157.138 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-06; 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.