1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Bangladesh
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Rajshahi—763,580, Asia/Dhaka, 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 in Western Bangladesh.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Rajshahi is GeoNames ID 1185128. Its recorded administrative path is Rajshahi → Rajshahi Division → Bangladesh, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Rajshahi 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 2026-04-13; 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, Rajshahi ranks 722 by recorded population. Inside the 10 selected Bangladesh entries it ranks 6; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 409. Its 763,580 population value is 0.85 times the 897,484 median for the country cohort and 0.76 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Rajshahi sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Bangladesh entries. Rajshahi'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.
Rajshahi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Mohammadpur at 58.775 km with 527,571 recorded people; Durgapur at 162.403 km with 518,872 recorded people; Rangpur at 166.1 km with 1,031,388 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 107.325 km. Compared with Mohammadpur, Rajshahi's recorded population is 1.45 times as large. Against Rajshahi, Mohammadpur follows Naogaon → Rajshahi Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Bangladesh cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dhaka identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Rajshahi's. Against Rajshahi, Durgapur follows Paschim Bardhaman → West Bengal → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected India cohort rather than Bangladesh, uses Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Dhaka, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Rajshahi's. Against Rajshahi, Rangpur follows Rangpur → Rangpur Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Bangladesh cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dhaka identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Rajshahi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 495 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Rajshahi's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1185128, the coordinate pair 24.3740 / 88.6011, country rank 6 of 10, and neighbor GeoNames 1194041 at 58.775 km bind Rajshahi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Rajshahi's reference point is 24.3740° north and 88.6011° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Dhaka is shared by 10 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Rajshahi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Rajshahi's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Rajshahi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Rajshahi, 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
Rajshahi's closest other entries in this atlas are Mohammadpur (58.775 km), Durgapur (162.403 km), Rangpur (166.1 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.