1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Changsha (Hunan), 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 Changsha (Hunan)—3,093,980, 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 Changsha (Hunan) is GeoNames ID 1815577. Its recorded administrative path is Changsha Shi → Hunan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Changsha appears on 2 separate GeoNames rows in this atlas, so the qualifier “Hunan” and numeric ID prevent those places from being merged. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-13; 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, Changsha (Hunan) ranks 112 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 42; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 73. Its 3,093,980 population value is 2.65 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 3.07 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Changsha (Hunan) falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Changsha (Hunan)'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.
Changsha (Hunan)'s three nearest other atlas coordinates are Xiangtan at 39.397 km with 959,303 recorded people; Zhuzhou at 44.273 km with 1,129,687 recorded people; Guankou at 64.475 km with 1,380,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 25.078 km. Compared with Xiangtan, Changsha (Hunan)'s recorded population is 3.23 times as large. Against Changsha (Hunan), Xiangtan follows Xiangtan Shi → Hunan → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Changsha (Hunan)'s. Against Changsha (Hunan), Zhuzhou follows Zhuzhou 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Changsha (Hunan)'s. Against Changsha (Hunan), Guankou follows Changsha 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 third-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Changsha (Hunan)'s. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 358 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Changsha (Hunan)'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 1815577, the coordinate pair 28.1987 / 112.9709, country rank 42 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1790492 at 39.397 km bind Changsha (Hunan) to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Changsha (Hunan)'s reference point is 28.1987° north and 112.9709° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Changsha (Hunan)'s row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Changsha (Hunan)'s point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Changsha (Hunan)'s time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Changsha (Hunan), 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
Changsha (Hunan)'s closest other entries in this atlas are Xiangtan (39.397 km), Zhuzhou (44.273 km), Guankou (64.475 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.