1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Orenburg—564,773, Asia/Yekaterinburg, 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 the south of Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Orenburg is GeoNames ID 515003. Its recorded administrative path is Orenburg Oblast → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Orenburg 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, Orenburg ranks 986 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 29; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 90. Its 564,773 population value is 0.87 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.85 times the 664,046 regional median. Orenburg sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Russia entries. Orenburg'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.
Orenburg's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Aktobe at 221.567 km with 500,757 recorded people; Ufa at 335.913 km with 1,120,547 recorded people; Samara at 372.182 km with 1,163,399 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 150.615 km. Compared with Aktobe, Orenburg's recorded population is 1.13 times as large. Against Orenburg, Aktobe follows Aktobe Gorodskaya Administratsiya → Aktobe → Kazakhstan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Kazakhstan cohort rather than Russia, uses Asia/Aqtobe instead of Asia/Yekaterinburg, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Orenburg's. Against Orenburg, Ufa follows Bashkortostan Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yekaterinburg identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Orenburg's. Against Orenburg, Samara follows Samara Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Samara instead of Asia/Yekaterinburg, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Orenburg's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,031 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Orenburg'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 515003, the coordinate pair 51.7671 / 55.0988, country rank 29 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 610611 at 221.567 km bind Orenburg to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Orenburg's reference point is 51.7671° north and 55.0988° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Yekaterinburg is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Orenburg's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Orenburg's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Orenburg's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Orenburg, 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
Orenburg's closest other entries in this atlas are Aktobe (221.567 km), Ufa (335.913 km), Samara (372.182 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.