1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Indonesia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Padang—942,938, Asia/Jakarta, 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 West Sumatra Province, Indonesia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Padang is GeoNames ID 1633419. Its recorded administrative path is Kota Padang → West Sumatra → Indonesia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Padang 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 2026-06-11; 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, Padang ranks 589 by recorded population. Inside the 29 selected Indonesia entries it ranks 17; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 343. Its 942,938 population value is 0.81 times the 1,166,066 median for the country cohort and 0.94 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Padang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Indonesia entries. Padang'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.
Padang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Pekanbaru at 202.95 km with 1,167,599 recorded people; Jambi City at 369.819 km with 635,101 recorded people; Malacca at 407.785 km with 579,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 204.835 km. Compared with Pekanbaru, Padang's recorded population is 0.81 times as large. Against Padang, Pekanbaru follows Kota Pekanbaru → Riau → Indonesia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Jakarta identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Padang's. Against Padang, Jambi City follows Kota Jambi → Jambi → Indonesia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Jakarta identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Padang's. Against Padang, Malacca follows Melaka Tengah → Melaka → Malaysia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Malaysia cohort rather than Indonesia, uses Asia/Kuala_Lumpur instead of Asia/Jakarta, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Padang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,005 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Padang'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 1633419, the coordinate pair 0.9492 / 100.3543, country rank 17 of 29, and neighbor GeoNames 1631761 at 202.95 km bind Padang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Padang's reference point is 0.9492° south and 100.3543° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Jakarta is shared by 23 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Padang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Padang's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Padang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Padang, 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
Padang's closest other entries in this atlas are Pekanbaru (202.95 km), Jambi City (369.819 km), Malacca (407.785 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-11; 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.