1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Cangzhou, 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 Cangzhou—527,681, 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 Cangzhou is GeoNames ID 1816080. Its recorded administrative path is Cangzhou Shi → Hebei → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Cangzhou 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 2023-09-06; 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, Cangzhou ranks 1,072 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 279; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 565. Its 527,681 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. Cangzhou sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Cangzhou'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.
Cangzhou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tianjin at 96.564 km with 11,090,314 recorded people; Tanggu at 104.775 km with 535,298 recorded people; Dezhou at 105.189 km with 679,535 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 8.625 km. Compared with Tianjin, Cangzhou's recorded population is 0.05 times as large. Against Cangzhou, Tianjin follows Tianjin Municipality → Tianjin → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Cangzhou's. Against Cangzhou, Tanggu follows Tianjin Municipality → Tianjin → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Cangzhou's. Against Cangzhou, Dezhou follows Dezhou Shi → Shandong → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Cangzhou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 684 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cangzhou'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 1816080, the coordinate pair 38.3112 / 116.8533, country rank 279 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1792947 at 96.564 km bind Cangzhou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cangzhou's reference point is 38.3112° north and 116.8533° 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. Cangzhou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Cangzhou's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cangzhou's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cangzhou, 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
Cangzhou's closest other entries in this atlas are Tianjin (96.564 km), Tanggu (104.775 km), Dezhou (105.189 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 2023-09-06; 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.