1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Baoshan (Yunnan), 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 Baoshan (Yunnan)—935,618, 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 Yunnan, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Baoshan (Yunnan) is GeoNames ID 1281673. Its recorded administrative path is Baoshan Shi → Yunnan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Baoshan appears on 2 separate GeoNames rows in this atlas, so the qualifier “Yunnan” and numeric ID prevent those places from being merged. 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, Baoshan (Yunnan) ranks 593 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 188; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 345. Its 935,618 population value is 0.80 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.93 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Baoshan (Yunnan) sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Baoshan (Yunnan)'s recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Baoshan (Yunnan)'s three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jianshui at 228.084 km with 490,000 recorded people; Chuxiong at 240.052 km with 555,081 recorded people; Panzhihua at 302.878 km with 787,177 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 74.794 km. Compared with Jianshui, Baoshan (Yunnan)'s recorded population is 1.91 times as large. Against Baoshan (Yunnan), Jianshui follows Pu'er City → Yunnan → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Baoshan (Yunnan)'s. Against Baoshan (Yunnan), Chuxiong follows Chuxiong Yizu Zizhizhou → Yunnan → 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 Baoshan (Yunnan)'s. Against Baoshan (Yunnan), Panzhihua follows Panzhihua Shi → Sichuan → 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 Baoshan (Yunnan)'s. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,038 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Baoshan (Yunnan)'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 1281673, the coordinate pair 25.1163 / 99.1637, country rank 188 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 9931406 at 228.084 km bind Baoshan (Yunnan) to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Baoshan (Yunnan)'s reference point is 25.1163° north and 99.1637° 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. Baoshan (Yunnan)'s row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Baoshan (Yunnan)'s point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Baoshan (Yunnan)'s time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Baoshan (Yunnan), 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
Baoshan (Yunnan)'s closest other entries in this atlas are Jianshui (228.084 km), Chuxiong (240.052 km), Panzhihua (302.878 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.