1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Pune—3,124,458, Asia/Kolkata, 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: metropolis in Maharashtra, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Pune is GeoNames ID 1259229. Its recorded administrative path is Pune Division → Maharashtra → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Pune 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 2025-02-26; 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, Pune ranks 110 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 9; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 72. Its 3,124,458 population value is 3.12 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 3.10 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Pune falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's India population cohort. Pune's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Pune's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Pimpri-Chinchwad at 12.289 km with 1,727,692 recorded people; Pimpri at 12.573 km with 1,284,606 recorded people; Ulhasnagar at 107.315 km with 516,584 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 95.026 km. Compared with Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune's recorded population is 1.81 times as large. Against Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad follows Pune Division → Maharashtra → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Pune's. Against Pune, Pimpri follows Pune Division → Maharashtra → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Pune's. Against Pune, Ulhasnagar follows Thane → Maharashtra → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Pune's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 178 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Pune's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1259229, the coordinate pair 18.5196 / 73.8554, country rank 9 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 7626690 at 12.289 km bind Pune to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Pune's reference point is 18.5196° north and 73.8554° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kolkata is shared by 109 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Pune's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Pune's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Pune's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Pune, 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
Pune's closest other entries in this atlas are Pimpri-Chinchwad (12.289 km), Pimpri (12.573 km), Ulhasnagar (107.315 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-26; 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.