1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Sholapur—997,281, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sholapur is GeoNames ID 1256436. Its recorded administrative path is Solapur → Maharashtra → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Sholapur 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, Sholapur ranks 555 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 56; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 323. Its 997,281 population value is 1.00 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.99 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Sholapur sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Sholapur'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.
Sholapur's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kalaburagi at 105.166 km with 543,147 recorded people; Sangli at 169.386 km with 601,214 recorded people; Kolhapur at 208.755 km with 549,236 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 103.589 km. Compared with Kalaburagi, Sholapur's recorded population is 1.84 times as large. Against Sholapur, Kalaburagi follows Gulbarga → Karnataka → 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 below Sholapur's. Against Sholapur, Sangli follows Sangli → Maharashtra → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower 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 below Sholapur's. Against Sholapur, Kolhapur follows Kolhapur → Maharashtra → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower 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 below Sholapur's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 716 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sholapur'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 1256436, the coordinate pair 17.6715 / 75.9104, country rank 56 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1270752 at 105.166 km bind Sholapur to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sholapur's reference point is 17.6715° north and 75.9104° 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. Sholapur's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sholapur's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sholapur's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sholapur, 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
Sholapur's closest other entries in this atlas are Kalaburagi (105.166 km), Sangli (169.386 km), Kolhapur (208.755 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.