Patna

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Patna is GeoNames ID 1260086. Its recorded administrative path is Patna → Bihar → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat.

Patna 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 2025-10-18; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Patna ranks 264 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 21; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 154.

Its 1,684,297 population value is 1.68 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.67 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Patna falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's India population cohort.

Patna'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

Patna's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Varanasi at 215.588 km with 1,164,404 recorded people; Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) at 219.244 km with 674,246 recorded people; Kathmandu at 235.075 km with 1,442,271 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 19.487 km. Compared with Varanasi, Patna's recorded population is 1.45 times as large. Against Patna, Varanasi follows Varanasi → Uttar Pradesh → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat.

Its recorded population is below Patna's. Against Patna, Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) follows Gorakhpur → Uttar Pradesh → India in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Patna's. Against Patna, Kathmandu follows Kathmandu → Bagmati Province → Nepal in the source.

Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Nepal cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Kathmandu instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Patna's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,027 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Patna'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 1260086, the coordinate pair 25.5941 / 85.1356, country rank 21 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1253405 at 215.588 km bind Patna to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Patna's reference point is 25.5941° north and 85.1356° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kolkata is shared by 109 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Patna's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.

Patna's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Patna's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Patna, 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.