1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Myanmar (Burma)
Compare this sourced profile of Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) 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 Mandalay—1,208,099, Asia/Yangon, 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: cultural city in Mandalay Region, Myanmar.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Mandalay is GeoNames ID 1311874. Its recorded administrative path is Mandalay District → Mandalay Region → Myanmar (Burma), and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Mandalay 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 2026-04-14; 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, Mandalay ranks 437 by recorded population. Inside the 4 selected Myanmar (Burma) entries it ranks 2; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 258. Its 1,208,099 population value is 1.13 times the 1,066,550 median for the country cohort and 1.20 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Mandalay is rank 2 among the 4 selected Myanmar (Burma) entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Mandalay'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.
Mandalay's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Nay Pyi Taw at 247.981 km with 925,000 recorded people; Bandarban at 398.889 km with 495,272 recorded people; Chattogram at 439.726 km with 3,920,222 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 191.745 km. Compared with Nay Pyi Taw, Mandalay's recorded population is 1.31 times as large. Against Mandalay, Nay Pyi Taw follows Nay Pyi Taw (South) → Nay Pyi Taw → Myanmar (Burma) in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Myanmar (Burma) cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yangon identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Mandalay's. Against Mandalay, Bandarban follows Bandarban → Chittagong → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Bangladesh cohort rather than Myanmar (Burma), uses Asia/Dhaka instead of Asia/Yangon, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Mandalay's. Against Mandalay, Chattogram follows Chittagong → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Bangladesh cohort rather than Myanmar (Burma), uses Asia/Dhaka instead of Asia/Yangon, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Mandalay's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,063 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Mandalay'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 1311874, the coordinate pair 21.9747 / 96.0836, country rank 2 of 4, and neighbor GeoNames 6611854 at 247.981 km bind Mandalay to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Mandalay's reference point is 21.9747° north and 96.0836° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Yangon is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Mandalay's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Mandalay's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Mandalay's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Mandalay, 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
Mandalay's closest other entries in this atlas are Nay Pyi Taw (247.981 km), Bandarban (398.889 km), Chattogram (439.726 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.