1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Uzbekistan
Compare this sourced profile of Samarkand, Uzbekistan 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 Samarkand—595,200, Asia/Samarkand, 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 southeastern Uzbekistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Samarkand is GeoNames ID 1216265. Its recorded administrative path is Samarqand Region → Uzbekistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Samarkand 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, Samarkand ranks 939 by recorded population. Inside the 4 selected Uzbekistan entries it ranks 4; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 508. Its 595,200 population value is 0.81 times the 730,510 median for the country cohort and 0.59 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Samarkand is rank 4 among the 4 selected Uzbekistan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Samarkand'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.
Samarkand's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dushanbe at 199.991 km with 679,400 recorded people; Tashkent at 261.417 km with 1,978,028 recorded people; Mazār-e Sharīf at 327.777 km with 523,300 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 127.786 km. Compared with Dushanbe, Samarkand's recorded population is 0.88 times as large. Against Samarkand, Dushanbe follows Dushanbe → Tajikistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Tajikistan cohort rather than Uzbekistan, uses Asia/Dushanbe instead of Asia/Samarkand, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Samarkand's. Against Samarkand, Tashkent follows Tashkent → Uzbekistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Uzbekistan cohort, uses Asia/Tashkent instead of Asia/Samarkand, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Samarkand's. Against Samarkand, Mazār-e Sharīf follows Mazar-e Sharif → Balkh → Afghanistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Afghanistan cohort rather than Uzbekistan, uses Asia/Kabul instead of Asia/Samarkand, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Samarkand's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 993 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Samarkand'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 1216265, the coordinate pair 39.6546 / 66.9645, country rank 4 of 4, and neighbor GeoNames 1221874 at 199.991 km bind Samarkand to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Samarkand's reference point is 39.6546° north and 66.9645° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Samarkand is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Samarkand's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Samarkand's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Samarkand's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Samarkand, 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
Samarkand's closest other entries in this atlas are Dushanbe (199.991 km), Tashkent (261.417 km), Mazār-e Sharīf (327.777 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.
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