1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Ankang, China before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Ankang—870,126, Asia/Shanghai, 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: prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ankang is GeoNames ID 1789065. Its recorded administrative path is Ankang Shi → Shaanxi → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Ankang 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 2021-10-20; 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, Ankang ranks 639 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 199; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 368. Its 870,126 population value is 0.75 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.86 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Ankang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Ankang's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Ankang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Shangluo at 156.908 km with 531,696 recorded people; Shiyan at 164.869 km with 3,460,000 recorded people; Xi'an at 175.695 km with 9,600,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 18.787 km. Compared with Shangluo, Ankang's recorded population is 1.64 times as large. Against Ankang, Shangluo follows Shangluo Shi → Shaanxi → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Shanghai identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Ankang's. Against Ankang, Shiyan follows Shiyan Shi → Hubei → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Shanghai identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Ankang's. Against Ankang, Xi'an follows Xi'an Shi → Shaanxi → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Shanghai identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ankang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 894 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ankang'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 1789065, the coordinate pair 32.6800 / 109.0172, country rank 199 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1796068 at 156.908 km bind Ankang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ankang's reference point is 32.6800° north and 109.0172° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Ankang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ankang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ankang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ankang, 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
Ankang's closest other entries in this atlas are Shangluo (156.908 km), Shiyan (164.869 km), Xi'an (175.695 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-10-20; 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.