1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Changsha (Guangdong), 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 (Guangdong)—688,242, 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 (Guangdong) is GeoNames ID 1796989. Its recorded administrative path is Jiangmen Shi → Guangdong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Changsha appears on 2 separate GeoNames rows in this atlas, so the qualifier “Guangdong” and numeric ID prevent those places from being merged. The city row itself was updated 2024-07-12; 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 (Guangdong) ranks 800 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 231; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 446. Its 688,242 population value is 0.59 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.68 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Changsha (Guangdong) sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Changsha (Guangdong)'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.
Changsha (Guangdong)'s three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jiangmen at 46.697 km with 1,795,459 recorded people; Zhongshan at 73.062 km with 3,841,873 recorded people; Zhaoqing at 77.718 km with 1,553,109 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 31.021 km. Compared with Jiangmen, Changsha (Guangdong)'s recorded population is 0.38 times as large. Against Changsha (Guangdong), Jiangmen follows Jiangmen Shi → Guangdong → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Changsha (Guangdong)'s. Against Changsha (Guangdong), Zhongshan follows Zhongshan Prefecture → Guangdong → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Changsha (Guangdong)'s. Against Changsha (Guangdong), Zhaoqing follows Zhaoqing Shi → Guangdong → China in the source. Its point has higher 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Changsha (Guangdong)'s. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 407 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Changsha (Guangdong)'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 1796989, the coordinate pair 22.3812 / 112.6849, country rank 231 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1806299 at 46.697 km bind Changsha (Guangdong) to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Changsha (Guangdong)'s reference point is 22.3812° north and 112.6849° 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. Changsha (Guangdong)'s row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Changsha (Guangdong)'s point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Changsha (Guangdong)'s place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Changsha (Guangdong), 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 (Guangdong)'s closest other entries in this atlas are Jiangmen (46.697 km), Zhongshan (73.062 km), Zhaoqing (77.718 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-12; 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.