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 Tirunelveli—1,435,844, 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 Tamil Nadu, South India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tirunelveli is GeoNames ID 1254361. Its recorded administrative path is Tirunelveli Kattabo → Tamil Nadu → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Tirunelveli 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, Tirunelveli ranks 344 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 26; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 201. Its 1,435,844 population value is 1.43 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.42 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Tirunelveli falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Tirunelveli'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.
Tirunelveli's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Thiruvananthapuram at 85.122 km with 788,271 recorded people; Madurai at 140.86 km with 1,465,625 recorded people; Kochi at 206.333 km with 633,553 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 121.211 km. Compared with Thiruvananthapuram, Tirunelveli's recorded population is 1.82 times as large. Against Tirunelveli, Thiruvananthapuram follows Thiruvananthapuram → Kerala → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Tirunelveli's. Against Tirunelveli, Madurai follows Madurai → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Tirunelveli's. Against Tirunelveli, 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Tirunelveli's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 635 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tirunelveli'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 1254361, the coordinate pair 8.7274 / 77.6838, country rank 26 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1254163 at 85.122 km bind Tirunelveli to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tirunelveli's reference point is 8.7274° north and 77.6838° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kolkata is shared by 109 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Tirunelveli's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Tirunelveli's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tirunelveli's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tirunelveli, 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
Tirunelveli's closest other entries in this atlas are Thiruvananthapuram (85.122 km), Madurai (140.86 km), Kochi (206.333 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.