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 Yaroslavl—608,722, 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 Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Yaroslavl is GeoNames ID 468902. Its recorded administrative path is Yaroslavl Oblast → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Yaroslavl 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 2025-06-21; 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, Yaroslavl ranks 915 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 25; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 78. Its 608,722 population value is 0.94 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.92 times the 664,046 regional median. Yaroslavl sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Russia entries. Yaroslavl'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.
Yaroslavl's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Moscow at 250.119 km with 10,381,222 recorded people; Nizhniy Novgorod at 288.916 km with 1,259,013 recorded people; Ryazan at 334.073 km with 538,962 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 83.954 km. Compared with Moscow, Yaroslavl's recorded population is 0.06 times as large. Against Yaroslavl, Moscow follows Moscow → Russia in the source. Its point has lower 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 Yaroslavl's. Against Yaroslavl, Nizhniy Novgorod follows Nizhny Novgorod 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 Yaroslavl's. Against Yaroslavl, Ryazan follows Ryazan Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower 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 below Yaroslavl's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,067 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Yaroslavl'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 468902, the coordinate pair 57.6299 / 39.8737, country rank 25 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 524901 at 250.119 km bind Yaroslavl to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Yaroslavl's reference point is 57.6299° north and 39.8737° 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. Yaroslavl's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Yaroslavl's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Yaroslavl's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Yaroslavl, 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
Yaroslavl's closest other entries in this atlas are Moscow (250.119 km), Nizhniy Novgorod (288.916 km), Ryazan (334.073 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 2025-06-21; 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.