1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Nizhniy Novgorod, 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 Nizhniy Novgorod—1,259,013, 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 Nizhniy Novgorod is GeoNames ID 520555. Its recorded administrative path is Nizhny Novgorod Oblast → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Nizhniy Novgorod 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 2026-06-20; 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, Nizhniy Novgorod ranks 407 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 5; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 23. Its 1,259,013 population value is 1.94 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 1.90 times the 664,046 regional median. Nizhniy Novgorod falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Russia population cohort. Nizhniy Novgorod's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Nizhniy Novgorod's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Cheboksary at 201.67 km with 492,331 recorded people; Yaroslavl at 288.916 km with 608,722 recorded people; Kazan at 323.42 km with 1,243,500 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 121.75 km. Compared with Cheboksary, Nizhniy Novgorod's recorded population is 2.56 times as large. Against Nizhniy Novgorod, Cheboksary follows Cheboksarskiy Rayon → Chuvash Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Nizhniy Novgorod's. Against Nizhniy Novgorod, Yaroslavl follows Yaroslavl Oblast → 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 the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Nizhniy Novgorod's. Against Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan follows Gorodskoy Okrug Kazan' → Tatarstan Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Nizhniy Novgorod's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 999 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nizhniy Novgorod'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 520555, the coordinate pair 56.3287 / 44.0021, country rank 5 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 569696 at 201.67 km bind Nizhniy Novgorod to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Nizhniy Novgorod's reference point is 56.3287° north and 44.0021° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Moscow is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Nizhniy Novgorod's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Nizhniy Novgorod's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nizhniy Novgorod's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nizhniy Novgorod, 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
Nizhniy Novgorod's closest other entries in this atlas are Cheboksary (201.67 km), Yaroslavl (288.916 km), Kazan (323.42 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 2026-06-20; 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.