1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Volgograd—1,013,533, Europe/Volgograd, 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 and administrative center of Volgograd Oblast in southern Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Volgograd is GeoNames ID 472757. Its recorded administrative path is Volgograd Oblast → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Volgograd 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 2025-09-09; 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, Volgograd ranks 541 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 14; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 40. Its 1,013,533 population value is 1.56 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 1.53 times the 664,046 regional median. Volgograd sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Russia population cohort. Volgograd'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.
Volgograd's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Saratov at 331.814 km with 844,858 recorded people; Astrakhan at 373.907 km with 533,925 recorded people; Rostov-on-Don at 393.308 km with 1,130,305 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 61.494 km. Compared with Saratov, Volgograd's recorded population is 1.20 times as large. Against Volgograd, Saratov follows Saratovskiy Rayon → Saratov Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Saratov instead of Europe/Volgograd, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Volgograd's. Against Volgograd, Astrakhan follows Gorodskoy Okrug Astrakhan' → Astrakhan Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Astrakhan instead of Europe/Volgograd, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Volgograd's. Against Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don follows Rostov → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Europe/Moscow instead of Europe/Volgograd, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Volgograd's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,134 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Volgograd'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 472757, the coordinate pair 48.7138 / 44.4976, country rank 14 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 498677 at 331.814 km bind Volgograd to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Volgograd's reference point is 48.7138° north and 44.4976° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Volgograd is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Volgograd's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Volgograd's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Volgograd's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Volgograd, 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
Volgograd's closest other entries in this atlas are Saratov (331.814 km), Astrakhan (373.907 km), Rostov-on-Don (393.308 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-09-09; 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.