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 Moradabad—721,139, 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 in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Moradabad is GeoNames ID 1262801. Its recorded administrative path is Moradabad → Uttar Pradesh → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Morādābād 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 2024-03-13; 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, Moradabad ranks 770 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 73; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 434. Its 721,139 population value is 0.72 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.72 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Moradabad sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Moradabad'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.
Moradabad's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bareilly at 82.722 km with 745,435 recorded people; Meerut at 105.373 km with 1,223,184 recorded people; Aligarh at 126.712 km with 753,207 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 43.99 km. Compared with Bareilly, Moradabad's recorded population is 0.97 times as large. Against Moradabad, Bareilly follows Bareilly → Uttar Pradesh → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Moradabad's. Against Moradabad, Meerut follows Meerut → Uttar Pradesh → 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 above Moradabad's. Against Moradabad, Aligarh follows Aligarh → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Moradabad's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 629 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Moradabad'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 1262801, the coordinate pair 28.8389 / 78.7768, country rank 73 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1277013 at 82.722 km bind Moradabad to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Moradabad's reference point is 28.8389° north and 78.7768° 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. Moradabad's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Moradabad's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Moradabad's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Moradabad, 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
Moradabad's closest other entries in this atlas are Bareilly (82.722 km), Meerut (105.373 km), Aligarh (126.712 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-03-13; 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.