1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
Compare this sourced profile of Saharanpur, India 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 Saharanpur—484,873, 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: city in Uttar Pradesh, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Saharanpur is GeoNames ID 1257806. Its recorded administrative path is District Saharanpur → Uttar Pradesh → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Sahāranpur 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 2024-01-06; 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, Saharanpur ranks 1,182 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 106; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 623. Its 484,873 population value is 0.48 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.48 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Saharanpur sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Saharanpur's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Saharanpur's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dehradun at 61.48 km with 522,081 recorded people; Meerut at 110.949 km with 1,223,184 recorded people; Chandigarh at 112.132 km with 970,602 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 50.652 km. Compared with Dehradun, Saharanpur's recorded population is 0.93 times as large. Against Saharanpur, Dehradun follows Dehradun → Uttarakhand → India in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Saharanpur's. Against Saharanpur, Meerut follows Meerut → Uttar Pradesh → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Saharanpur's. Against Saharanpur, Chandigarh follows Chandigarh → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Saharanpur's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 511 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Saharanpur'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 1257806, the coordinate pair 29.9679 / 77.5452, country rank 106 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1273313 at 61.48 km bind Saharanpur to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Saharanpur's reference point is 29.9679° north and 77.5452° 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. Saharanpur's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Saharanpur's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Saharanpur's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Saharanpur, 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
Saharanpur's closest other entries in this atlas are Dehradun (61.48 km), Meerut (110.949 km), Chandigarh (112.132 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 2024-01-06; 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.