1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Samara, 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 Samara—1,163,399, Europe/Samara, 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 Samara Oblast, Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Samara is GeoNames ID 499099. Its recorded administrative path is Samara Oblast → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Samara 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, Samara ranks 465 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 9; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 28. Its 1,163,399 population value is 1.79 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 1.75 times the 664,046 regional median. Samara falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Russia population cohort. Samara'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.
Samara's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tolyatti at 63.483 km with 702,879 recorded people; Ulyanovsk at 169.513 km with 626,540 recorded people; Kazan at 294.359 km with 1,243,500 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 230.876 km. Compared with Tolyatti, Samara's recorded population is 1.66 times as large. Against Samara, Tolyatti follows Samara Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Samara identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Samara's. Against Samara, Ulyanovsk follows Ulyanovskiy Rayon → Ulyanovsk → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Ulyanovsk instead of Europe/Samara, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Samara's. Against Samara, Kazan follows Gorodskoy Okrug Kazan' → Tatarstan Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Moscow instead of Europe/Samara, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Samara's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 517 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Samara'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 499099, the coordinate pair 53.2077 / 50.1355, country rank 9 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 482283 at 63.483 km bind Samara to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Samara's reference point is 53.2077° north and 50.1355° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Samara is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Samara's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Samara's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Samara's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Samara, 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
Samara's closest other entries in this atlas are Tolyatti (63.483 km), Ulyanovsk (169.513 km), Kazan (294.359 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.