1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
Compare this sourced profile of Mangaluru, 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 Mangaluru—499,487, 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: coastal city in Karnataka state, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Mangaluru is GeoNames ID 1263780. Its recorded administrative path is Dakshina Kannada → Karnataka → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Mangaluru 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 2025-05-24; 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, Mangaluru ranks 1,148 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 104; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 605. Its 499,487 population value is 0.50 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.50 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Mangaluru sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Mangaluru's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Mangaluru's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Mysore at 205.391 km with 920,550 recorded people; Kozhikode at 211.072 km with 550,440 recorded people; Hubballi at 271.917 km with 943,788 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 66.526 km. Compared with Mysore, Mangaluru's recorded population is 0.54 times as large. Against Mangaluru, Mysore follows Mysore → Karnataka → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Mangaluru's. Against Mangaluru, Kozhikode follows Kozhikode → Kerala → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Mangaluru's. Against Mangaluru, Hubballi follows Dharwad → Karnataka → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Mangaluru's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,012 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Mangaluru'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 1263780, the coordinate pair 12.9172 / 74.8560, country rank 104 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1262321 at 205.391 km bind Mangaluru to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Mangaluru's reference point is 12.9172° north and 74.8560° 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. Mangaluru's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Mangaluru's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Mangaluru's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Mangaluru, 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
Mangaluru's closest other entries in this atlas are Mysore (205.391 km), Kozhikode (211.072 km), Hubballi (271.917 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-24; 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.