1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Anqing, 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 Anqing—804,493, 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 Anhui, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Anqing is GeoNames ID 1817993. Its recorded administrative path is Anqing Shi → Anhui → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Anqing 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 2021-10-18; 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, Anqing ranks 690 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 210; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 395. Its 804,493 population value is 0.69 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.80 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Anqing sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Anqing'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.
Anqing's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Chizhou at 44.369 km with 615,274 recorded people; Jiujiang at 134.898 km with 1,164,268 recorded people; Lu'an at 144.95 km with 1,644,344 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 100.581 km. Compared with Chizhou, Anqing's recorded population is 1.31 times as large. Against Anqing, Chizhou follows Chizhou Shi → Anhui → 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 Anqing's. Against Anqing, Jiujiang follows Jiujiang Shi → Jiangxi → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower 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 Anqing's. Against Anqing, Lu'an follows Lu'an Shi → Anhui → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Anqing's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 393 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Anqing's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1817993, the coordinate pair 30.5137 / 117.0472, country rank 210 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1814934 at 44.369 km bind Anqing to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Anqing's reference point is 30.5137° north and 117.0472° 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. Anqing's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Anqing's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Anqing's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Anqing, 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
Anqing's closest other entries in this atlas are Chizhou (44.369 km), Jiujiang (134.898 km), Lu'an (144.95 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 2021-10-18; 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.