1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Novosibirsk, 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 Novosibirsk—1,612,833, Asia/Novosibirsk, 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: Russian city; administrative center of Siberian Federal District.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Novosibirsk is GeoNames ID 1496747. Its recorded administrative path is Novosibirskiy Rayon → Novosibirsk Oblast → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Novosibirsk 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 2026-04-14; 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, Novosibirsk ranks 280 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 3; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 16. Its 1,612,833 population value is 2.49 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 2.43 times the 664,046 regional median. Novosibirsk falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Russia population cohort. Novosibirsk's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Novosibirsk's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Barnaul at 191.773 km with 632,372 recorded people; Kemerovo at 204.721 km with 558,973 recorded people; Tomsk at 208.455 km with 574,002 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 16.682 km. Compared with Barnaul, Novosibirsk's recorded population is 2.55 times as large. Against Novosibirsk, Barnaul follows Barnaul Urban Okrug → Altai Krai → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Barnaul instead of Asia/Novosibirsk, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Novosibirsk's. Against Novosibirsk, Kemerovo follows Kuzbass → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Novokuznetsk instead of Asia/Novosibirsk, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Novosibirsk's. Against Novosibirsk, Tomsk follows Tomskiy Rayon → Tomsk Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Tomsk instead of Asia/Novosibirsk, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Novosibirsk's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 970 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Novosibirsk'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 1496747, the coordinate pair 55.0226 / 82.9318, country rank 3 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 1510853 at 191.773 km bind Novosibirsk to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Novosibirsk's reference point is 55.0226° north and 82.9318° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Novosibirsk is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Novosibirsk's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Novosibirsk's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Novosibirsk's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Novosibirsk, 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
Novosibirsk's closest other entries in this atlas are Barnaul (191.773 km), Kemerovo (204.721 km), Tomsk (208.455 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.