1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Ukraine
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Odesa—1,010,537, Europe/Kyiv, 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 southwestern Ukraine, administrative center of Odesa Oblast and Odesa Raion.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Odesa is GeoNames ID 698740. Its recorded administrative path is Odeskyi Raion → Odesa → Ukraine, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Odesa 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 2026-08-03; 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, Odesa ranks 544 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected Ukraine entries it ranks 3; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 41. Its 1,010,537 population value is 1.12 times the 901,645 median for the country cohort and 1.52 times the 664,046 regional median. Odesa is rank 3 among the 9 selected Ukraine entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Odesa'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.
Odesa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Chișinău at 154.919 km with 635,994 recorded people; Kryvyy Rih at 254.98 km with 603,904 recorded people; Sevastopol at 300.595 km with 547,820 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 145.676 km. Compared with Chișinău, Odesa's recorded population is 1.59 times as large. Against Odesa, Chișinău follows Chisinau Municipality → Moldova in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Moldova cohort rather than Ukraine, uses Europe/Chisinau instead of Europe/Kyiv, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Odesa's. Against Odesa, Kryvyy Rih follows Kryvyy Rih Raion → Dnipropetrovsk → Ukraine in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Ukraine cohort, uses the shared Europe/Kyiv identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Odesa's. Against Odesa, Sevastopol follows Sevastopol City → Ukraine in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Ukraine cohort, uses Europe/Simferopol instead of Europe/Kyiv, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Odesa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 888 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Odesa'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 698740, the coordinate pair 46.4857 / 30.7438, country rank 3 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 618426 at 154.919 km bind Odesa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Odesa's reference point is 46.4857° north and 30.7438° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Kyiv is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Odesa's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Odesa's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Odesa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Odesa at 50 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Odesa's closest other entries in this atlas are Chișinău (154.919 km), Kryvyy Rih (254.98 km), Sevastopol (300.595 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-08-03; 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.