Source identity and administrative path
The source row behind Narela is GeoNames ID 1261809. Its recorded administrative path is North Delhi → Delhi → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Narela 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.
Population position inside fixed cohorts
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Narela ranks 694 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 69; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 396. Its 800,000 population value is 0.80 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.79 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Narela sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Narela'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.
Nearest-reference pattern
Narela's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Loni at 22.282 km with 516,082 recorded people; Delhi at 26.091 km with 11,034,555 recorded people; Najafgarh at 29.229 km with 1,365,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 6.947 km. Compared with Loni, Narela's recorded population is 1.55 times as large. Against Narela, Loni follows Ghaziabad → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Narela's. Against Narela, Delhi follows Delhi → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Narela's. Against Narela, Najafgarh follows South West Delhi → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Narela's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 279 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Narela's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1261809, the coordinate pair 28.8527 / 77.0929, country rank 69 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1264773 at 22.282 km bind Narela to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts
Narela's reference point is 28.8527° north and 77.0929° 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. Narela's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Narela's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Narela's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Narela, 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.
- Record keys
- Narela · GeoNames 1261809 · Q6965751
- Name scope
- Narela · 1 atlas row share this source label · qualifier not required
- Administrative chain
- North Delhi · Delhi · India
- Coordinate signature
- 28.8527° N · 77.0929° E
- Population snapshot
- 800,000 · atlas rank 694 of 1,206
- Country comparison
- India rank 69 of 109 · median 1,001,694 · ratio 0.80×
- Regional comparison
- Asia rank 396 of 632 · median 1,008,426 · ratio 0.79×
- Time-zone cohort
- Asia/Kolkata · 109 of 1,206 atlas rows
- Place-class cohort
- PPL populated place · 243 of 1,206 rows
- Elevation field
- Narela · missing in GeoNames
- Nearest reference
- Loni · 22.282 km · population 516,082 · atlas rank 1,102
- Second reference
- Delhi · 26.091 km · population 11,034,555 · atlas rank 16
- Third reference
- Najafgarh · 29.229 km · population 1,365,000 · atlas rank 366
- Neighbour geometry
- Narela · nearest-distance rank 279 of 1,206 · three-reference spread 6.947 km
- Source dates
- Narela row updated 2024-01-06 · atlas dataset checked 2026-08-04