1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Changzhi (Changzhi Shi), 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 Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)—1,214,940, 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 Shanxi, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Changzhi (Changzhi Shi) is GeoNames ID 1808956. Its recorded administrative path is Changzhi Shi → Shanxi → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Changzhi appears on 2 separate GeoNames rows in this atlas, so the qualifier “Changzhi Shi” and numeric ID prevent those places from being merged. The city row itself was updated 2025-08-20; 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, Changzhi (Changzhi Shi) ranks 432 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 142; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 255. Its 1,214,940 population value is 1.04 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.20 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Changzhi (Changzhi Shi) sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'s recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'s three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jiaozuo at 105.732 km with 865,413 recorded people; Anyang at 115.132 km with 1,146,839 recorded people; Hebi at 117.55 km with 634,721 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 11.818 km. Compared with Jiaozuo, Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'s recorded population is 1.40 times as large. Against Changzhi (Changzhi Shi), Jiaozuo follows Jiaozuo Shi → Henan → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'s. Against Changzhi (Changzhi Shi), Anyang follows Anyang Shi → Henan → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'s. Against Changzhi (Changzhi Shi), Hebi follows Hebi Shi → Henan → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'s. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 719 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'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 1808956, the coordinate pair 36.1839 / 113.1053, country rank 142 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1805987 at 105.732 km bind Changzhi (Changzhi Shi) to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'s reference point is 36.1839° north and 113.1053° 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. Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'s row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'s point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'s time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Changzhi (Changzhi Shi), 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
Changzhi (Changzhi Shi)'s closest other entries in this atlas are Jiaozuo (105.732 km), Anyang (115.132 km), Hebi (117.55 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-20; 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.