1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
South Korea
Compare this sourced profile of Cheongju-si, South Korea 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 Cheongju-si—852,147, Asia/Seoul, 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 Cheongju-si is GeoNames ID 1845604. Its recorded administrative path is Cheongju-si → North Chungcheong → South Korea, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Cheongju-si 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 2026-04-14; 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, Cheongju-si ranks 652 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected South Korea entries it ranks 12; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 378. Its 852,147 population value is 0.96 times the 883,490 median for the country cohort and 0.85 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Cheongju-si sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected South Korea entries. Cheongju-si'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.
Cheongju-si's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Daejeon at 33.376 km with 1,441,203 recorded people; Cheonan at 35.486 km with 658,831 recorded people; Suwon at 84.33 km with 1,234,582 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 50.954 km. Compared with Daejeon, Cheongju-si's recorded population is 0.59 times as large. Against Cheongju-si, Daejeon follows Daejeon → South Korea in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Cheongju-si's. Against Cheongju-si, Cheonan follows Cheonan-si → Chungcheongnam-do → South Korea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Cheongju-si's. Against Cheongju-si, Suwon follows Suwon-si → Gyeonggi-do → South Korea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Cheongju-si's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 338 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cheongju-si'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 1845604, the coordinate pair 36.6372 / 127.4897, country rank 12 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1835235 at 33.376 km bind Cheongju-si to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cheongju-si's reference point is 36.6372° north and 127.4897° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Seoul is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Cheongju-si's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Cheongju-si's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cheongju-si's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cheongju-si, 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
Cheongju-si's closest other entries in this atlas are Daejeon (33.376 km), Cheonan (35.486 km), Suwon (84.33 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.