1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Dalian—4,913,879, 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: city in Liaoning, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dalian is GeoNames ID 1814087. Its recorded administrative path is Dalian Shi → Liaoning → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Dalian 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 2024-05-17; 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, Dalian ranks 59 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 21; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 38. Its 4,913,879 population value is 4.22 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 4.87 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Dalian falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Dalian'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.
Dalian's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Yantai at 160.268 km with 2,227,733 recorded people; Weihai at 162.285 km with 844,310 recorded people; Yingkou at 202.155 km with 591,159 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 41.887 km. Compared with Yantai, Dalian's recorded population is 2.21 times as large. Against Dalian, Yantai follows Yantai Shi → Shandong → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is below Dalian's. Against Dalian, Weihai follows Weihai Shi → Shandong → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Dalian's. Against Dalian, Yingkou follows Yingkou → Liaoning → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Dalian's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 897 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dalian'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 1814087, the coordinate pair 38.9122 / 121.6022, country rank 21 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1787093 at 160.268 km bind Dalian to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dalian's reference point is 38.9122° north and 121.6022° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Dalian's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dalian's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dalian's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dalian, 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
Dalian's closest other entries in this atlas are Yantai (160.268 km), Weihai (162.285 km), Yingkou (202.155 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-05-17; 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.