Provided is a magnetic recording medium that is capable of achieving favorable electromagnetic conversion characteristics and suppressing the increase in friction.

A magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium and includes: a base; and a magnetic layer. An average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.30 m or less. The magnetic layer contains a chlorine atom and a nitrogen atom, an atomic concentration ratio (A2/A1) of a maximum chlorine atomic concentration A1 obtained by measuring a chlorine atomic concentration of the magnetic layer in a thickness direction of the magnetic layer and a maximum nitrogen atomic concentration A2 obtained by measuring a nitrogen atomic concentration of the magnetic layer in the thickness direction of the magnetic layer is 0.50 or more and 0.75 or less. An average value of a protruding peak height Rpk of a surface of the magnetic layer is 2.10 nm or less.

Provided is a magnetic recording medium including: a support body; a base layer containing carbon particle powder and metal-containing particle powder; and a recording layer. In a recording surface, a maximum indentation depth h is 85h140, and a ratio d of a permanent strain to an elastic recovery (permanent strain/elastic recovery) is 0.95d1.25.

The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder. In a binarized image of a secondary electron image obtained by imaging a surface of the magnetic layer with a scanning electron microscope at an acceleration voltage of 5 kV, the number of bright regions having an equivalent circle diameter of 75 nm or more and less than 125 nm is 100 or more and 4000 or less, and standard deviation of the number of the bright regions in a width direction of the surface of the magnetic layer is 400 or less.

A magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium and includes: a base; and a magnetic layer. An average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.30 m or less. The magnetic layer contains a chlorine atom and a nitrogen atom, an atomic concentration ratio (A2/A1) of a maximum chlorine atomic concentration A1 obtained by measuring a chlorine atomic concentration of the magnetic layer in a thickness direction of the magnetic layer and a maximum nitrogen atomic concentration A2 obtained by measuring a nitrogen atomic concentration of the magnetic layer in the thickness direction of the magnetic layer is 0.50 or more and 0.75 or less. An average value of a protruding peak height Rpk of a surface of the magnetic layer is 2.10 nm or less.

The magnetic tape includes a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder. The magnetic layer has n (n is an integer of 3 or more) servo bands, and, in a case in which the servo bands are sequentially numbered with a servo band located at one most end of the magnetic layer in a width direction as a servo band 0, a servo band located at the other most end as a servo band n-1, a servo band adjacent to the servo band 0 as a servo band 1, and a servo band adjacent to the servo band 1 as a servo band 2, a wrinkle depth S.sub.A at a position A at which a deviation amount of a servo band interval from an arithmetic average of servo band intervals between the servo band 1 and the servo band 2 is largest is 10 m or less.