Bao'an

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Bao'an is GeoNames ID 13308620. Its recorded administrative path is Guangdong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat.

Bao'an 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 2025-05-08; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Bao'an ranks 71 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 24; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 46.

Its 4,476,554 population value is 3.84 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 4.44 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bao'an falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort.

Bao'an's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.

Nearest-reference pattern

Bao'an's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Shenzhen at 19.056 km with 17,494,398 recorded people; Tuen Mun at 20.027 km with 507,900 recorded people; Sha Tin at 36.131 km with 495,200 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 17.075 km. Compared with Shenzhen, Bao'an's recorded population is 0.26 times as large. Against Bao'an, Shenzhen follows Shenzhen → Guangdong → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat.

Its recorded population is above Bao'an's. Against Bao'an, Tuen Mun follows Tuen Mun → Hong Kong in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Hong Kong cohort rather than China, uses Asia/Hong_Kong instead of Asia/Shanghai, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Bao'an's. Against Bao'an, Sha Tin follows Sha Tin → Hong Kong in the source.

Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Hong Kong cohort rather than China, uses Asia/Hong_Kong instead of Asia/Shanghai, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Bao'an's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 256 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bao'an's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter 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 13308620, the coordinate pair 22.5521 / 113.8829, country rank 24 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1795565 at 19.056 km bind Bao'an to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Bao'an's reference point is 22.5521° north and 113.8829° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Bao'an's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label.

Bao'an's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bao'an's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bao'an, 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.