1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Changde, 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 Changde—1,457,419, 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 Hunan, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Changde is GeoNames ID 1791121. Its recorded administrative path is Changde Shi → Hunan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Changde 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 2025-03-18; 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, Changde ranks 333 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 107; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 192. Its 1,457,419 population value is 1.25 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.45 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Changde sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Changde'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.
Changde's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Heshan at 81.514 km with 1,249,807 recorded people; Yueyang at 140.782 km with 991,465 recorded people; Loudi at 147.164 km with 497,171 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 65.65 km. Compared with Heshan, Changde's recorded population is 1.17 times as large. Against Changde, Heshan follows Yiyang Shi → Hunan → 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Changde's. Against Changde, Yueyang follows Yueyang Shi → Hunan → 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Changde's. Against Changde, Loudi follows Loudi Shi → Hunan → 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Changde's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 624 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Changde'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 1791121, the coordinate pair 29.0321 / 111.6984, country rank 107 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1808316 at 81.514 km bind Changde to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Changde's reference point is 29.0321° north and 111.6984° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Changde's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Changde's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Changde's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Changde, 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
Changde's closest other entries in this atlas are Heshan (81.514 km), Yueyang (140.782 km), Loudi (147.164 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-03-18; 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.