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 Visakhapatnam—1,063,178, 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 Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Visakhapatnam is GeoNames ID 1253102. Its recorded administrative path is Vishakhapatnam → Andhra Pradesh → India, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Visakhapatnam 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 2026-04-29; 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, Visakhapatnam ranks 505 by recorded population. Inside the 109 selected India entries it ranks 49; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 294. Its 1,063,178 population value is 1.06 times the 1,001,694 median for the country cohort and 1.05 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Visakhapatnam sits in the second quarter of this atlas's India population cohort. Visakhapatnam'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.
Visakhapatnam's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Rasapūdipalem at 13.495 km with 1,728,128 recorded people; Nowrangapur at 185.726 km with 1,220,946 recorded people; Vijayawada at 301.229 km with 1,143,232 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 287.734 km. Compared with Rasapūdipalem, Visakhapatnam's recorded population is 0.62 times as large. Against Visakhapatnam, Rasapūdipalem follows Vishakhapatnam → Andhra Pradesh → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Visakhapatnam's. Against Visakhapatnam, Nowrangapur follows Nabarangpur → Odisha → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Visakhapatnam's. Against Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada follows NTR → Andhra Pradesh → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Visakhapatnam's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 195 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Visakhapatnam's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1253102, the coordinate pair 17.6801 / 83.2016, country rank 49 of 109, and neighbor GeoNames 1258393 at 13.495 km bind Visakhapatnam to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Visakhapatnam's reference point is 17.6801° north and 83.2016° 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. Visakhapatnam's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Visakhapatnam's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Visakhapatnam's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Visakhapatnam, 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
Visakhapatnam's closest other entries in this atlas are Rasapūdipalem (13.495 km), Nowrangapur (185.726 km), Vijayawada (301.229 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-29; 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.