1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Ryazan, 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 Ryazan—538,962, 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 in Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ryazan is GeoNames ID 500096. Its recorded administrative path is Ryazan Oblast → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Ryazan’ 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, Ryazan ranks 1,043 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 32; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 98. Its 538,962 population value is 0.83 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.81 times the 664,046 regional median. Ryazan sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Russia entries. Ryazan'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.
Ryazan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tula at 143.226 km with 482,873 recorded people; Moscow at 182.166 km with 10,381,222 recorded people; Lipetsk at 226.99 km with 509,735 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 83.764 km. Compared with Tula, Ryazan's recorded population is 1.12 times as large. Against Ryazan, Tula follows Tula Oblast → 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 Ryazan's. Against Ryazan, Moscow follows Moscow → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ryazan's. Against Ryazan, Lipetsk follows Lipetsk Oblast → 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 Ryazan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 854 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ryazan'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 500096, the coordinate pair 54.6270 / 39.7042, country rank 32 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 480562 at 143.226 km bind Ryazan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ryazan's reference point is 54.6270° north and 39.7042° 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. Ryazan's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Ryazan's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ryazan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ryazan, 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
Ryazan's closest other entries in this atlas are Tula (143.226 km), Moscow (182.166 km), Lipetsk (226.99 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.