1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Dazhou, 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 Dazhou—1,589,435, 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 Sichuan, People's Republic of China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dazhou is GeoNames ID 1813325. Its recorded administrative path is Dazhou Shi → Sichuan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Dazhou 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 2022-05-22; 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, Dazhou ranks 288 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 94; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 168. Its 1,589,435 population value is 1.36 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.58 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Dazhou sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Dazhou'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.
Dazhou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Wanxian at 97.274 km with 859,662 recorded people; Bazhong at 100.03 km with 2,712,894 recorded people; Wanzhou at 101.817 km with 1,545,900 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 4.543 km. Compared with Wanxian, Dazhou's recorded population is 1.85 times as large. Against Dazhou, Wanxian follows Chongqing → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Dazhou's. Against Dazhou, Bazhong follows Bazhong Shi → Sichuan → 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 above Dazhou's. Against Dazhou, Wanzhou follows Chongqing → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Dazhou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 685 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dazhou'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 1813325, the coordinate pair 31.2106 / 107.4631, country rank 94 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1791748 at 97.274 km bind Dazhou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dazhou's reference point is 31.2106° north and 107.4631° 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. Dazhou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dazhou's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dazhou's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dazhou, 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
Dazhou's closest other entries in this atlas are Wanxian (97.274 km), Bazhong (100.03 km), Wanzhou (101.817 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-05-22; 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.