1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Beihai, 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 Beihai—525,329, 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 Guangxi, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Beihai is GeoNames ID 1816705. Its recorded administrative path is Beihai Shi → Guangxi → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Beihai 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 2026-07-21; 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, Beihai ranks 1,076 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 280; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 568. Its 525,329 population value is 0.45 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.52 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Beihai sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Beihai's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Beihai's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Qinzhou at 73.377 km with 1,296,300 recorded people; Zhanjiang at 134.617 km with 1,400,709 recorded people; Yulin at 166.023 km with 1,056,743 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 92.646 km. Compared with Qinzhou, Beihai's recorded population is 0.41 times as large. Against Beihai, Qinzhou follows Qinzhou Shi → Guangxi → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Beihai's. Against Beihai, Zhanjiang follows Zhanjiang Shi → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Beihai's. Against Beihai, Yulin follows Yulin Shi → Guangxi → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Beihai's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 575 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Beihai's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1816705, the coordinate pair 21.4835 / 109.1155, country rank 280 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1797551 at 73.377 km bind Beihai to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Beihai's reference point is 21.4835° north and 109.1155° 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. Beihai's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Beihai's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Beihai's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Beihai, 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
Beihai's closest other entries in this atlas are Qinzhou (73.377 km), Zhanjiang (134.617 km), Yulin (166.023 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-21; 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.