1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
India
Compare this sourced profile of Thiruvananthapuram, India 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 Thiruvananthapuram—788,271, 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 southern India; the capital of Kerala.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Thiruvananthapuram is GeoNames ID 1254163. Its recorded administrative path is Thiruvananthapuram → Kerala → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Thiruvananthapuram 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 2025-05-24; 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, Thiruvananthapuram ranks 704 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 70; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 401. Its 788,271 population value is 0.79 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.78 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Thiruvananthapuram sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Thiruvananthapuram'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.
Thiruvananthapuram's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tirunelveli at 85.122 km with 1,435,844 recorded people; Kochi at 178.528 km with 633,553 recorded people; Kanayannur at 180.936 km with 851,406 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 95.814 km. Compared with Tirunelveli, Thiruvananthapuram's recorded population is 0.55 times as large. Against Thiruvananthapuram, Tirunelveli follows Tirunelveli Kattabo → Tamil Nadu → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Thiruvananthapuram's. Against Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi follows Ernakulam → Kerala → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Thiruvananthapuram's. Against Thiruvananthapuram, Kanayannur follows Ernakulam → Kerala → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Thiruvananthapuram's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 635 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Thiruvananthapuram'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 1254163, the coordinate pair 8.4855 / 76.9492, country rank 70 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1254361 at 85.122 km bind Thiruvananthapuram to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Thiruvananthapuram's reference point is 8.4855° north and 76.9492° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kolkata is shared by 109 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Thiruvananthapuram's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Thiruvananthapuram's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Thiruvananthapuram's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Thiruvananthapuram, 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
Thiruvananthapuram's closest other entries in this atlas are Tirunelveli (85.122 km), Kochi (178.528 km), Kanayannur (180.936 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-24; 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.