1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Chaozhou, 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 Chaozhou—1,750,945, 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 Guangdong, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Chaozhou is GeoNames ID 1815395. Its recorded administrative path is Chaozhou Shi → Guangdong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Chaozhou 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 2021-10-07; 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, Chaozhou ranks 250 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 82; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 147. Its 1,750,945 population value is 1.50 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.74 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Chaozhou sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Chaozhou'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.
Chaozhou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jieyang at 28.988 km with 1,899,394 recorded people; Shantou at 33.744 km with 3,838,900 recorded people; Puning at 59.999 km with 874,954 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 31.011 km. Compared with Jieyang, Chaozhou's recorded population is 0.92 times as large. Against Chaozhou, Jieyang follows Jieyang Shi → Guangdong → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Chaozhou's. Against Chaozhou, Shantou follows Shantou Shi → Guangdong → 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 above Chaozhou's. Against Chaozhou, Puning follows Jieyang Shi → Guangdong → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Chaozhou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 315 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Chaozhou'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 1815395, the coordinate pair 23.6540 / 116.6226, country rank 82 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1797121 at 28.988 km bind Chaozhou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Chaozhou's reference point is 23.6540° north and 116.6226° 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. Chaozhou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Chaozhou's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Chaozhou's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Chaozhou, 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
Chaozhou's closest other entries in this atlas are Jieyang (28.988 km), Shantou (33.744 km), Puning (59.999 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-10-07; 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.