1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Chenzhou, 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 Chenzhou—822,534, 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 Chenzhou is GeoNames ID 1815059. Its recorded administrative path is Prefecture of Chenzhou → Hunan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Chenzhou 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 2022-01-17; 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, Chenzhou ranks 680 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 209; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 392. Its 822,534 population value is 0.71 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.82 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Chenzhou sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Chenzhou'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.
Chenzhou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Shaoguan at 124.182 km with 1,028,460 recorded people; Hengyang at 127.988 km with 1,075,516 recorded people; Yongzhou at 157.866 km with 1,020,715 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 33.684 km. Compared with Shaoguan, Chenzhou's recorded population is 0.80 times as large. Against Chenzhou, Shaoguan follows Shaoguan 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 Chenzhou's. Against Chenzhou, Hengyang follows Hengyang Shi → Hunan → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Chenzhou's. Against Chenzhou, Yongzhou follows Yongzhou → Hunan → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Chenzhou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 790 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Chenzhou'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 1815059, the coordinate pair 25.8000 / 113.0333, country rank 209 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1795874 at 124.182 km bind Chenzhou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Chenzhou's reference point is 25.8000° north and 113.0333° 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. Chenzhou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Chenzhou's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Chenzhou's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Chenzhou, 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
Chenzhou's closest other entries in this atlas are Shaoguan (124.182 km), Hengyang (127.988 km), Yongzhou (157.866 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 2022-01-17; 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.