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 Bayan Nur—1,760,000, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bayan Nur is GeoNames ID 11838258. Its recorded administrative path is Bayannur Shi → Inner Mongolia → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Bayan Nur 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 2025-08-20; 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, Bayan Nur ranks 248 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 81; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 146. Its 1,760,000 population value is 1.51 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.75 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bayan Nur sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Bayan Nur'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.
Bayan Nur's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Baotou at 207.447 km with 2,150,000 recorded people; Shizuishan at 213.455 km with 739,400 recorded people; Ordos at 239.344 km with 1,940,653 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 31.897 km. Compared with Baotou, Bayan Nur's recorded population is 0.82 times as large. Against Bayan Nur, Baotou follows Baotou Shi → Inner Mongolia → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is above Bayan Nur's. Against Bayan Nur, Shizuishan follows Shizuishan Shi → Ningxia → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Bayan Nur's. Against Bayan Nur, Ordos follows Ordos Shi → Inner Mongolia → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is above Bayan Nur's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,015 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bayan Nur'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 11838258, the coordinate pair 40.7414 / 107.3860, country rank 81 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 2038432 at 207.447 km bind Bayan Nur to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bayan Nur's reference point is 40.7414° north and 107.3860° 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. Bayan Nur's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bayan Nur's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bayan Nur's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Bayan Nur at 1,050 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Bayan Nur's closest other entries in this atlas are Baotou (207.447 km), Shizuishan (213.455 km), Ordos (239.344 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-20; 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.