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 Vadodara—1,822,221, 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: metropolis in Gujarat, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Vadodara is GeoNames ID 1253573. Its recorded administrative path is Vadodara → Gujarat → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Vadodara 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 2026-01-15; 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, Vadodara ranks 236 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 17; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 139. Its 1,822,221 population value is 1.82 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.81 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Vadodara falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Vadodara'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.
Vadodara's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ahmedabad at 102.869 km with 6,357,693 recorded people; Bhavnagar at 124.017 km with 605,882 recorded people; Surat at 128.758 km with 4,591,246 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 25.889 km. Compared with Ahmedabad, Vadodara's recorded population is 0.29 times as large. Against Vadodara, Ahmedabad follows Ahmadabad → 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 above Vadodara's. Against Vadodara, Bhavnagar follows Bhavnagar → Gujarat → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Vadodara's. Against Vadodara, Surat follows Surat → Gujarat → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Vadodara's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 707 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Vadodara'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 1253573, the coordinate pair 22.2994 / 73.2081, country rank 17 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1279233 at 102.869 km bind Vadodara to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Vadodara's reference point is 22.2994° north and 73.2081° 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. Vadodara's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Vadodara's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Vadodara's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Vadodara, 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
Vadodara's closest other entries in this atlas are Ahmedabad (102.869 km), Bhavnagar (124.017 km), Surat (128.758 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-15; 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.