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 Surat—4,591,246, 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 Gujarat, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Surat is GeoNames ID 1255364. Its recorded administrative path is Surat → Gujarat → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Surat 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 2026-07-02; 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, Surat ranks 69 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 8; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 44. Its 4,591,246 population value is 4.58 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 4.55 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Surat falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's India population cohort. Surat's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Surat's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bilimora at 49.326 km with 510,879 recorded people; Bhavnagar at 94.233 km with 605,882 recorded people; Vadodara at 128.758 km with 1,822,221 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 79.432 km. Compared with Bilimora, Surat's recorded population is 8.99 times as large. Against Surat, Bilimora follows Navsari → Gujarat → 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 Surat's. Against Surat, Bhavnagar follows Bhavnagar → Gujarat → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Surat's. Against Surat, Vadodara follows Vadodara → Gujarat → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Surat's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 429 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Surat'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 1255364, the coordinate pair 21.1959 / 72.8302, country rank 8 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1275610 at 49.326 km bind Surat to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Surat's reference point is 21.1959° north and 72.8302° 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. Surat's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Surat's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Surat's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Surat, 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
Surat's closest other entries in this atlas are Bilimora (49.326 km), Bhavnagar (94.233 km), Vadodara (128.758 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-02; 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.