1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Taiwan
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Banqiao District—551,221, Asia/Taipei, 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: district in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Banqiao District is GeoNames ID 1670029. Its recorded administrative path is New Taipei City → Taipei → Taiwan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Banqiao 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 2025-06-14; 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, Banqiao District ranks 1,009 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Taiwan entries it ranks 6; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 535. Its 551,221 population value is 0.20 times the 2,793,973 median for the country cohort and 0.55 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Banqiao District is rank 6 among the 6 selected Taiwan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Banqiao District'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.
Banqiao District's three nearest other atlas coordinates are New Taipei City at 5.404 km with 4,004,367 recorded people; Taipei at 7.361 km with 7,871,900 recorded people; Taichung at 124.801 km with 2,850,285 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 119.397 km. Compared with New Taipei City, Banqiao District's recorded population is 0.14 times as large. Against Banqiao District, New Taipei City follows New Taipei City → Taipei → Taiwan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Taiwan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Taipei identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Banqiao District's. Against Banqiao District, Taipei follows Taipei City → Taiwan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Taiwan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Taipei identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Banqiao District's. Against Banqiao District, Taichung follows Taichung City → Taiwan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Taiwan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Taipei identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Banqiao District's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 59 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Banqiao District's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. 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 1670029, the coordinate pair 25.0143 / 121.4672, country rank 6 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 12908892 at 5.404 km bind Banqiao District to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Banqiao District's reference point is 25.0143° north and 121.4672° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Taipei is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Banqiao District's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Banqiao District's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Banqiao District's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Banqiao District, 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
Banqiao District's closest other entries in this atlas are New Taipei City (5.404 km), Taipei (7.361 km), Taichung (124.801 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-14; 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.