1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Vietnam
Compare this sourced profile of Biên Hòa, Vietnam 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 Biên Hòa—1,272,235, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, 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: old city in Đồng Nai province, Vietnam.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Biên Hòa is GeoNames ID 1587923. Its recorded administrative path is Thanh Pho Bien Hoa → Dong Nai → Vietnam, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Biên Hòa 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 2026-04-14; 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, Biên Hòa ranks 401 by recorded population. Inside the 13 selected Vietnam entries it ranks 7; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 236. Its 1,272,235 population value is 1.00 times the 1,272,235 median for the country cohort and 1.26 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Biên Hòa sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Vietnam population cohort. Biên Hòa'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.
Biên Hòa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Thủ Đức at 12.109 km with 524,670 recorded people; Thuận An at 12.234 km with 588,616 recorded people; Ho Chi Minh City at 25.197 km with 14,002,598 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 13.088 km. Compared with Thủ Đức, Biên Hòa's recorded population is 2.42 times as large. Against Biên Hòa, Thủ Đức follows Quan Thu GJuc → Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) → Vietnam in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses the shared Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Biên Hòa's. Against Biên Hòa, Thuận An follows Thanh Pho Thuan An → Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) → Vietnam in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses the shared Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Biên Hòa's. Against Biên Hòa, Ho Chi Minh City follows Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) → Vietnam in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses the shared Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Biên Hòa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 175 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Biên Hòa's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1587923, the coordinate pair 10.9447 / 106.8243, country rank 7 of 13, and neighbor GeoNames 1565019 at 12.109 km bind Biên Hòa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Biên Hòa's reference point is 10.9447° north and 106.8243° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Biên Hòa's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Biên Hòa's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Biên Hòa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Biên Hòa, 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
Biên Hòa's closest other entries in this atlas are Thủ Đức (12.109 km), Thuận An (12.234 km), Ho Chi Minh City (25.197 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.