1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Baoding—2,739,887, 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 Hebei Province, People's Republic of China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Baoding is GeoNames ID 1816971. Its recorded administrative path is Baoding Shi → Hebei → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Baoding 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 2025-11-04; 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, Baoding ranks 134 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 49; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 87. Its 2,739,887 population value is 2.35 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 2.72 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Baoding falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Baoding'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.
Baoding's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Shijiazhuang at 126.043 km with 3,938,513 recorded people; Hengshui at 127.539 km with 522,147 recorded people; Langfang at 129.748 km with 868,066 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 3.705 km. Compared with Shijiazhuang, Baoding's recorded population is 0.70 times as large. Against Baoding, Shijiazhuang follows Shijiazhuang Shi → Hebei → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Baoding's. Against Baoding, Hengshui follows Hengshui Shi → Hebei → 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 below Baoding's. Against Baoding, Langfang follows Langfang Shi → Hebei → 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 Baoding's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 805 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Baoding'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 1816971, the coordinate pair 38.8729 / 115.4625, country rank 49 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1795270 at 126.043 km bind Baoding to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Baoding's reference point is 38.8729° north and 115.4625° 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. Baoding's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Baoding's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Baoding's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Baoding, 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
Baoding's closest other entries in this atlas are Shijiazhuang (126.043 km), Hengshui (127.539 km), Langfang (129.748 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-11-04; 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.