1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Beijing, 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 Beijing—18,960,744, 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: capital city of China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Beijing is GeoNames ID 1816670. Its recorded administrative path is Beijing → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Beijing 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 2025-12-15; 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, Beijing ranks 2 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 2; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 2. Its 18,960,744 population value is 16.27 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 18.80 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Beijing falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Beijing'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.
Beijing's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Langfang at 50.857 km with 868,066 recorded people; Sanhe at 57.83 km with 965,075 recorded people; Tianjin at 108.214 km with 11,090,314 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 57.357 km. Compared with Langfang, Beijing's recorded population is 21.84 times as large. Against Beijing, Langfang follows Langfang 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 second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Beijing's. Against Beijing, Sanhe 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 third-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Beijing's. Against Beijing, Tianjin follows Tianjin Municipality → Tianjin → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Beijing's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 444 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Beijing'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 1816670, the coordinate pair 39.9075 / 116.3972, country rank 2 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1804540 at 50.857 km bind Beijing to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Beijing's reference point is 39.9075° north and 116.3972° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Beijing's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Beijing's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Beijing's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Beijing, 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
Beijing's closest other entries in this atlas are Langfang (50.857 km), Sanhe (57.83 km), Tianjin (108.214 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 2025-12-15; 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.