1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Naberezhnyye Chelny, Russia 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 Naberezhnyye Chelny—509,870, Europe/Moscow, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Naberezhnyye Chelny is GeoNames ID 523750. Its recorded administrative path is Tukayevskiy Rayon → Tatarstan Republic → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Naberezhnyye Chelny 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 2025-09-09; 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, Naberezhnyye Chelny ranks 1,121 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 35; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 110. Its 509,870 population value is 0.79 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.77 times the 664,046 regional median. Naberezhnyye Chelny sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Russia entries. Naberezhnyye Chelny'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.
Naberezhnyye Chelny's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Izhevsk at 132.979 km with 648,213 recorded people; Kazan at 206.351 km with 1,243,500 recorded people; Ufa at 250.596 km with 1,120,547 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 117.617 km. Compared with Izhevsk, Naberezhnyye Chelny's recorded population is 0.79 times as large. Against Naberezhnyye Chelny, Izhevsk follows Udmurtiya Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Samara instead of Europe/Moscow, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Naberezhnyye Chelny's. Against Naberezhnyye Chelny, Kazan follows Gorodskoy Okrug Kazan' → Tatarstan Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Naberezhnyye Chelny's. Against Naberezhnyye Chelny, Ufa follows Bashkortostan Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Yekaterinburg instead of Europe/Moscow, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Naberezhnyye Chelny's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 828 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Naberezhnyye Chelny'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 523750, the coordinate pair 55.7372 / 52.4196, country rank 35 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 554840 at 132.979 km bind Naberezhnyye Chelny to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Naberezhnyye Chelny's reference point is 55.7372° north and 52.4196° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Moscow is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Naberezhnyye Chelny's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Naberezhnyye Chelny's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Naberezhnyye Chelny's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Naberezhnyye Chelny, 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
Naberezhnyye Chelny's closest other entries in this atlas are Izhevsk (132.979 km), Kazan (206.351 km), Ufa (250.596 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-09-09; 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.