1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nepal
Compare this sourced profile of Pokhara, Nepal 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 Pokhara—600,051, Asia/Kathmandu, 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: metropolitan city of Nepal.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Pokhara is GeoNames ID 1282898. Its recorded administrative path is Kaski → Gandaki Pradesh → Nepal, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Pokhara 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, Pokhara ranks 932 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Nepal entries it ranks 2; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 504. Its 600,051 population value is 0.59 times the 1,021,161 median for the country cohort and 0.60 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Pokhara is rank 2 among the 2 selected Nepal entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Pokhara's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Pokhara's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kathmandu at 146.889 km with 1,442,271 recorded people; Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) at 177.027 km with 674,246 recorded people; Patna at 318.924 km with 1,684,297 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 172.035 km. Compared with Kathmandu, Pokhara's recorded population is 0.42 times as large. Against Pokhara, Kathmandu follows Kathmandu → Bagmati Province → Nepal in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Nepal cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kathmandu identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Pokhara's. Against Pokhara, Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) follows Gorakhpur → Uttar Pradesh → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected India cohort rather than Nepal, uses Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Kathmandu, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Pokhara's. Against Pokhara, Patna follows Patna → Bihar → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected India cohort rather than Nepal, uses Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Kathmandu, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Pokhara's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 867 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Pokhara'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 1282898, the coordinate pair 28.2669 / 83.9685, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 1283240 at 146.889 km bind Pokhara to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Pokhara's reference point is 28.2669° north and 83.9685° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kathmandu is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Pokhara's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Pokhara's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Pokhara's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Pokhara, 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
Pokhara's closest other entries in this atlas are Kathmandu (146.889 km), Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) (177.027 km), Patna (318.924 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.