1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Baotou, 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 Baotou—2,150,000, 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 Inner Mongolia, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Baotou is GeoNames ID 2038432. Its recorded administrative path is Baotou Shi → Inner Mongolia → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Baotou 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 2025-10-31; 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, Baotou ranks 187 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 62; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 114. Its 2,150,000 population value is 1.84 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 2.13 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Baotou falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Baotou's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Baotou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ordos at 116.097 km with 1,940,653 recorded people; Hohhot at 153.391 km with 2,350,000 recorded people; Bayan Nur at 207.447 km with 1,760,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 91.35 km. Compared with Ordos, Baotou's recorded population is 1.11 times as large. Against Baotou, Ordos follows Ordos Shi → Inner Mongolia → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Baotou's. Against Baotou, Hohhot follows Hohhot Shi → Inner Mongolia → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Baotou's. Against Baotou, Bayan Nur follows Bayannur Shi → Inner Mongolia → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Shanghai identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Baotou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 753 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Baotou'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 2038432, the coordinate pair 40.6516 / 109.8439, country rank 62 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 8347664 at 116.097 km bind Baotou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Baotou's reference point is 40.6516° north and 109.8439° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Baotou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Baotou's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Baotou's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Baotou, 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
Baotou's closest other entries in this atlas are Ordos (116.097 km), Hohhot (153.391 km), Bayan Nur (207.447 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-10-31; 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.