1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Changshu, 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 Changshu—1,677,050, 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 Changshu is GeoNames ID 7283386. Its recorded administrative path is Suzhou Shi → Jiangsu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Changshu 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 2022-04-01; 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, Changshu ranks 269 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 86; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 157. Its 1,677,050 population value is 1.44 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.66 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Changshu sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Changshu'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.
Changshu's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zhangjiagang at 31.012 km with 1,432,044 recorded people; Kunshan at 35.998 km with 2,092,496 recorded people; Taicang at 39.964 km with 831,113 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 8.952 km. Compared with Zhangjiagang, Changshu's recorded population is 1.17 times as large. Against Changshu, Zhangjiagang follows Suzhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 the same third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Changshu's. Against Changshu, Kunshan follows Suzhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 the same third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Changshu's. Against Changshu, Taicang follows Suzhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 the same third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Changshu's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 322 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Changshu'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 7283386, the coordinate pair 31.6462 / 120.7422, country rank 86 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1787331 at 31.012 km bind Changshu to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Changshu's reference point is 31.6462° north and 120.7422° 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. Changshu's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Changshu's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Changshu's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Changshu, 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
Changshu's closest other entries in this atlas are Zhangjiagang (31.012 km), Kunshan (35.998 km), Taicang (39.964 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 2022-04-01; 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.