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 Vellore—484,690, 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, India.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Vellore is GeoNames ID 1253286. Its recorded administrative path is Vellore → Tamil Nadu → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Vellore 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, Vellore ranks 1,183 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 107; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 624. Its 484,690 population value is 0.48 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 0.48 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Vellore sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected India entries. Vellore'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.
Vellore's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Chennai at 125.574 km with 4,681,087 recorded people; Kallakurichi at 133.061 km with 1,682,687 recorded people; Pondicherry at 133.111 km with 657,209 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 7.537 km. Compared with Chennai, Vellore's recorded population is 0.10 times as large. Against Vellore, Chennai follows Chennai → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Vellore's. Against Vellore, Kallakurichi follows Kallakurichi district → Tamil Nadu → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Vellore's. Against Vellore, Pondicherry follows Puducherry → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected India cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kolkata identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Vellore's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 801 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Vellore'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 1253286, the coordinate pair 12.9184 / 79.1326, country rank 107 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1264527 at 125.574 km bind Vellore to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Vellore's reference point is 12.9184° north and 79.1326° 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. Vellore's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Vellore's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Vellore's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Vellore, 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
Vellore's closest other entries in this atlas are Chennai (125.574 km), Kallakurichi (133.061 km), Pondicherry (133.111 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.