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 Raipur—1,027,264, 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: capital of Chhattisgarh, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Raipur is GeoNames ID 1258980. Its recorded administrative path is Raipur → Chhattisgarh → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Raipur 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 2024-12-31; 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, Raipur ranks 530 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 53; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 309. Its 1,027,264 population value is 1.03 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.02 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Raipur sits in the second quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Raipur'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.
Raipur's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bhilai at 21.401 km with 627,734 recorded people; Nowrangapur at 242.233 km with 1,220,946 recorded people; Nagpur at 264.386 km with 2,405,665 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 242.985 km. Compared with Bhilai, Raipur's recorded population is 1.64 times as large. Against Raipur, Bhilai follows Durg → Chhattisgarh → 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 Raipur's. Against Raipur, Nowrangapur follows Nabarangpur → Odisha → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Raipur's. Against Raipur, Nagpur follows Nagpur Division → Maharashtra → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Raipur's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 270 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Raipur'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 1258980, the coordinate pair 21.2333 / 81.6333, country rank 53 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1275971 at 21.401 km bind Raipur to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Raipur's reference point is 21.2333° north and 81.6333° 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. Raipur's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Raipur's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Raipur's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Raipur, 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
Raipur's closest other entries in this atlas are Bhilai (21.401 km), Nowrangapur (242.233 km), Nagpur (264.386 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-12-31; 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.