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 Yekaterinburg—1,495,066, Asia/Yekaterinburg, 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: forth-largest city in Russia, administrative center of Ural Federal District.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Yekaterinburg is GeoNames ID 1486209. Its recorded administrative path is Sverdlovsk Oblast → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Yekaterinburg 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 2026-04-14; 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, Yekaterinburg ranks 317 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 4; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 19. Its 1,495,066 population value is 2.31 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 2.25 times the 664,046 regional median. Yekaterinburg falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Russia population cohort. Yekaterinburg's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Yekaterinburg's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Chelyabinsk at 195.27 km with 1,202,371 recorded people; Perm at 290.961 km with 982,419 recorded people; Tyumen at 299.169 km with 768,358 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 103.899 km. Compared with Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg's recorded population is 1.24 times as large. Against Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk follows Chelyabinskiy Gorodskoy Okrug → Chelyabinsk → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yekaterinburg identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Yekaterinburg's. Against Yekaterinburg, Perm follows Perm Krai → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yekaterinburg identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Yekaterinburg's. Against Yekaterinburg, Tyumen follows Tyumen Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yekaterinburg identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Yekaterinburg's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 981 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Yekaterinburg'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 1486209, the coordinate pair 56.8573 / 60.6153, country rank 4 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 1508291 at 195.27 km bind Yekaterinburg to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Yekaterinburg's reference point is 56.8573° north and 60.6153° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Yekaterinburg is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Yekaterinburg's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Yekaterinburg's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Yekaterinburg's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Yekaterinburg, 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
Yekaterinburg's closest other entries in this atlas are Chelyabinsk (195.27 km), Perm (290.961 km), Tyumen (299.169 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.