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 Siliguri—515,574, 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 West Bengal, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Siliguri is GeoNames ID 1256525. Its recorded administrative path is Darjeeling → West Bengal → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Siliguri 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, Siliguri ranks 1,103 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 100; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 583. Its 515,574 population value is 0.51 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.51 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Siliguri sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Siliguri'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.
Siliguri's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Rangpur at 134.97 km with 1,031,388 recorded people; Mohammadpur at 201.69 km with 527,571 recorded people; Rajshahi at 260.332 km with 763,580 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 125.362 km. Compared with Rangpur, Siliguri's recorded population is 0.50 times as large. Against Siliguri, Rangpur follows Rangpur → Rangpur Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Bangladesh cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Dhaka instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Siliguri's. Against Siliguri, Mohammadpur follows Naogaon → Rajshahi Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Bangladesh cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Dhaka instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Siliguri's. Against Siliguri, Rajshahi follows Rajshahi → Rajshahi Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Bangladesh cohort rather than India, uses Asia/Dhaka instead of Asia/Kolkata, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Siliguri's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 835 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Siliguri'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 1256525, the coordinate pair 26.7100 / 88.4285, country rank 100 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1185188 at 134.97 km bind Siliguri to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Siliguri's reference point is 26.7100° north and 88.4285° 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. Siliguri's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Siliguri's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Siliguri's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Siliguri, 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
Siliguri's closest other entries in this atlas are Rangpur (134.97 km), Mohammadpur (201.69 km), Rajshahi (260.332 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.