1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Daqing, 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 Daqing—1,604,027, 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 Heilongjiang, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Daqing is GeoNames ID 2037860. Its recorded administrative path is Daqing Shi → Heilongjiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Daqing 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 2026-01-20; 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, Daqing ranks 284 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 92; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 165. Its 1,604,027 population value is 1.38 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.59 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Daqing sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Daqing's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Daqing's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Qiqihar at 115.217 km with 882,364 recorded people; Harbin at 157.258 km with 5,242,897 recorded people; Changchun at 301.657 km with 4,714,996 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 186.44 km. Compared with Qiqihar, Daqing's recorded population is 1.82 times as large. Against Daqing, Qiqihar follows Qiqihar Shi → Heilongjiang → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Daqing's. Against Daqing, Harbin follows Harbin Shi → Heilongjiang → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Daqing's. Against Daqing, Changchun follows Changchun Shi → Jilin → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Daqing's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 749 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Daqing'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 2037860, the coordinate pair 46.5833 / 125.0000, country rank 92 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 2035265 at 115.217 km bind Daqing to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Daqing's reference point is 46.5833° north and 125.0000° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Daqing's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Daqing's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Daqing's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Daqing, 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
Daqing's closest other entries in this atlas are Qiqihar (115.217 km), Harbin (157.258 km), Changchun (301.657 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-20; 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.