1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Chongqing, 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 Chongqing—7,457,599, 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 Chongqing is GeoNames ID 1814906. Its recorded administrative path is Chongqing → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Chongqing 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 2026-04-13; 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, Chongqing ranks 37 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 13; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 25. Its 7,457,599 population value is 6.40 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 7.40 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Chongqing falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Chongqing's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Chongqing's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Banan at 20.271 km with 508,703 recorded people; Guang'an at 101.904 km with 858,159 recorded people; Luzhou at 132.723 km with 998,900 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 112.452 km. Compared with Banan, Chongqing's recorded population is 14.66 times as large. Against Chongqing, Banan follows Chongqing → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Chongqing's. Against Chongqing, Guang'an follows Guang'an Shi → Sichuan → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Shanghai identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Chongqing's. Against Chongqing, Luzhou follows Luzhou Shi → Sichuan → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Chongqing's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 264 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Chongqing's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1814906, the coordinate pair 29.5603 / 106.5577, country rank 13 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1909733 at 20.271 km bind Chongqing to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Chongqing's reference point is 29.5603° north and 106.5577° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Chongqing's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Chongqing's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Chongqing's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Chongqing, 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
Chongqing's closest other entries in this atlas are Banan (20.271 km), Guang'an (101.904 km), Luzhou (132.723 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.