1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Tula, Russia 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 Tula—482,873, Europe/Moscow, 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 the center of European Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tula is GeoNames ID 480562. Its recorded administrative path is Tula Oblast → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Tula 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 2026-04-14; 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, Tula ranks 1,189 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 39; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 119. Its 482,873 population value is 0.74 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.73 times the 664,046 regional median. Tula sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Russia entries. Tula'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.
Tula's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ryazan at 143.226 km with 538,962 recorded people; Moscow at 173.014 km with 10,381,222 recorded people; Lipetsk at 220.036 km with 509,735 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 76.81 km. Compared with Ryazan, Tula's recorded population is 0.90 times as large. Against Tula, Ryazan follows Ryazan Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Tula's. Against Tula, Moscow follows Moscow → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Tula's. Against Tula, Lipetsk follows Lipetsk Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Europe/Moscow identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Tula's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 854 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tula'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 480562, the coordinate pair 54.1961 / 37.6182, country rank 39 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 500096 at 143.226 km bind Tula to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tula's reference point is 54.1961° north and 37.6182° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Moscow is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Tula's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Tula's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tula's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tula, 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
Tula's closest other entries in this atlas are Ryazan (143.226 km), Moscow (173.014 km), Lipetsk (220.036 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 2026-04-14; 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.