1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Rostov-on-Don, Russia 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 Rostov-on-Don—1,130,305, Europe/Moscow, 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: city and administrative center of Rostov Oblast in southern Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Rostov-on-Don is GeoNames ID 501175. Its recorded administrative path is Rostov → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Rostov-on-Don 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, Rostov-on-Don ranks 478 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 10; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 32. Its 1,130,305 population value is 1.74 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 1.70 times the 664,046 regional median. Rostov-on-Don falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Russia population cohort. Rostov-on-Don'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.
Rostov-on-Don's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Donetsk at 168.42 km with 901,645 recorded people; Krasnodar at 248.19 km with 899,541 recorded people; Zaporizhzhya at 351.646 km with 710,052 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 183.226 km. Compared with Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don's recorded population is 1.25 times as large. Against Rostov-on-Don, Donetsk follows Donetsk Raion → Donetsk → Ukraine in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Ukraine cohort rather than Russia, uses Europe/Kyiv instead of Europe/Moscow, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Rostov-on-Don's. Against Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar follows Krasnodar Krai → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Rostov-on-Don's. Against Rostov-on-Don, Zaporizhzhya follows Zaporizhzhya Raion → Zaporizhzhia → Ukraine in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Ukraine cohort rather than Russia, uses Europe/Kyiv instead of Europe/Moscow, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Rostov-on-Don's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 924 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Rostov-on-Don'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 501175, the coordinate pair 47.2200 / 39.7077, country rank 10 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 709717 at 168.42 km bind Rostov-on-Don to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Rostov-on-Don's reference point is 47.2200° north and 39.7077° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Moscow is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Rostov-on-Don's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Rostov-on-Don's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Rostov-on-Don's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Rostov-on-Don, 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
Rostov-on-Don's closest other entries in this atlas are Donetsk (168.42 km), Krasnodar (248.19 km), Zaporizhzhya (351.646 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
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.