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 Thane—1,841,488, 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: a city in Maharashtra, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Thane is GeoNames ID 1254661. Its recorded administrative path is Thane → Maharashtra → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Thāne 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 2025-12-15; 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, Thane ranks 232 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 16; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 138. Its 1,841,488 population value is 1.84 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.83 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Thane falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Thane'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.
Thane's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Borivli at 11.685 km with 609,617 recorded people; Dombivali at 12.766 km with 1,247,327 recorded people; Bhiwandi at 15.22 km with 874,032 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 3.535 km. Compared with Borivli, Thane's recorded population is 3.02 times as large. Against Thane, Borivli follows Mumbai Suburban → Maharashtra → 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 Thane's. Against Thane, Dombivali follows Thane → Maharashtra → 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 Thane's. Against Thane, Bhiwandi follows Thane → Maharashtra → 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 Thane's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 170 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Thane's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1254661, the coordinate pair 19.1970 / 72.9636, country rank 16 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1275248 at 11.685 km bind Thane to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Thane's reference point is 19.1970° north and 72.9636° 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. Thane's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Thane's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Thane's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Thane, 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
Thane's closest other entries in this atlas are Borivli (11.685 km), Dombivali (12.766 km), Bhiwandi (15.22 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-15; 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.