1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Dandong, 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 Dandong—631,973, 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: prefecture-level city in Liaoning, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dandong is GeoNames ID 2037886. Its recorded administrative path is Dandong Shi → Liaoning → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Dandong 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 2024-09-05; 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, Dandong ranks 885 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 249; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 484. Its 631,973 population value is 0.54 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.63 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Dandong sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Dandong'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.
Dandong's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Benxi at 139.422 km with 987,717 recorded people; Anshan at 162.11 km with 1,450,000 recorded people; Liaoyang at 163.559 km with 687,890 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 24.137 km. Compared with Benxi, Dandong's recorded population is 0.64 times as large. Against Dandong, Benxi follows Benxi Shi → Liaoning → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is above Dandong's. Against Dandong, Anshan follows Anshan Shi → Liaoning → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is above Dandong's. Against Dandong, Liaoyang follows Liaoyang Shi → Liaoning → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is above Dandong's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 848 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dandong'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 2037886, the coordinate pair 40.1292 / 124.3947, country rank 249 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 2038300 at 139.422 km bind Dandong to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dandong's reference point is 40.1292° north and 124.3947° 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. Dandong's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dandong's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dandong's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dandong, 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
Dandong's closest other entries in this atlas are Benxi (139.422 km), Anshan (162.11 km), Liaoyang (163.559 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-09-05; 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.