1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Meerut—1,223,184, 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: metropolitan city in Uttar Pradesh, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Meerut is GeoNames ID 1263214. Its recorded administrative path is Meerut → Uttar Pradesh → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Meerut 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, Meerut ranks 428 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 36; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 252. Its 1,223,184 population value is 1.22 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.21 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Meerut sits in the second quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Meerut'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.
Meerut's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ghaziabad at 43.611 km with 1,199,191 recorded people; Loni at 47.835 km with 516,082 recorded people; Delhi at 58.917 km with 11,034,555 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 15.306 km. Compared with Ghaziabad, Meerut's recorded population is 1.02 times as large. Against Meerut, Ghaziabad follows Ghaziabad → Uttar 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Meerut's. Against Meerut, Loni follows Ghaziabad → Uttar 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 Meerut's. Against Meerut, Delhi follows Delhi → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Meerut's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 388 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Meerut's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1263214, the coordinate pair 28.9800 / 77.7064, country rank 36 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1271308 at 43.611 km bind Meerut to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Meerut's reference point is 28.9800° north and 77.7064° 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. Meerut's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Meerut's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Meerut's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Meerut, 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
Meerut's closest other entries in this atlas are Ghaziabad (43.611 km), Loni (47.835 km), Delhi (58.917 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.