1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Aqsu, 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 Aqsu—535,657, Asia/Urumqi, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Aqsu is GeoNames ID 1529660. Its recorded administrative path is Aksu Diqu → Xinjiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Aqsu 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 2025-01-10; 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, Aqsu ranks 1,052 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 275; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 557. Its 535,657 population value is 0.46 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.53 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Aqsu sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Aqsu'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.
Aqsu's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Almaty at 360.231 km with 1,977,011 recorded people; Kashgar at 410.858 km with 506,640 recorded people; Korla at 493.4 km with 549,324 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 133.169 km. Compared with Almaty, Aqsu's recorded population is 0.27 times as large. Against Aqsu, Almaty follows Almaty → Kazakhstan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Kazakhstan cohort rather than China, uses Asia/Almaty instead of Asia/Urumqi, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Aqsu's. Against Aqsu, Kashgar follows Kashi Diqu → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Urumqi identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Aqsu's. Against Aqsu, Korla follows Bayinguoleng Menggu Zizhizhou → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Urumqi identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Aqsu's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,148 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Aqsu'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 1529660, the coordinate pair 41.1842 / 80.2792, country rank 275 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1526384 at 360.231 km bind Aqsu to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Aqsu's reference point is 41.1842° north and 80.2792° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Urumqi is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Aqsu's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Aqsu's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Aqsu's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Aqsu, 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
Aqsu's closest other entries in this atlas are Almaty (360.231 km), Kashgar (410.858 km), Korla (493.4 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-01-10; 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.