1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Vietnam
Compare this sourced profile of Da Nang, Vietnam 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 Da Nang—1,276,000, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, 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 Da Nang is GeoNames ID 1583992. Its recorded administrative path is Da Nang City → Vietnam, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Da Nang 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, Da Nang ranks 397 by recorded population. Inside the 13 selected Vietnam entries it ranks 6; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 234. Its 1,276,000 population value is 1.00 times the 1,272,235 median for the country cohort and 1.27 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Da Nang sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Vietnam population cohort. Da Nang'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.
Da Nang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Huế at 79.855 km with 1,380,000 recorded people; Qui Nhon at 276.625 km with 519,208 recorded people; Sanya at 279.028 km with 1,031,396 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 199.173 km. Compared with Huế, Da Nang's recorded population is 0.92 times as large. Against Da Nang, Huế follows Thanh Pho Hue → Thua Thien Hue Province → Vietnam in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses Asia/Bangkok instead of Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Da Nang's. Against Da Nang, Qui Nhon follows Phu Cat District → Gia Lai → Vietnam in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses the shared Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Da Nang's. Against Da Nang, Sanya follows Sanya Shi → Hainan → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected China cohort rather than Vietnam, uses Asia/Shanghai instead of Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Da Nang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 611 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Da Nang'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 1583992, the coordinate pair 16.0678 / 108.2208, country rank 6 of 13, and neighbor GeoNames 1580240 at 79.855 km bind Da Nang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Da Nang's reference point is 16.0678° north and 108.2208° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Da Nang's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Da Nang's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Da Nang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Da Nang, 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
Da Nang's closest other entries in this atlas are Huế (79.855 km), Qui Nhon (276.625 km), Sanya (279.028 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.