1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Dongguan, 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 Dongguan—9,644,871, 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 Guangdong, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dongguan is GeoNames ID 1812545. Its recorded administrative path is Dongguan Shi → Guangdong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Dongguan 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 2024-03-26; 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, Dongguan ranks 22 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 8; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 16. Its 9,644,871 population value is 8.28 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 9.56 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Dongguan falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Dongguan'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.
Dongguan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Guangzhou at 52.182 km with 16,096,724 recorded people; Bao'an at 53.595 km with 4,476,554 recorded people; Shenzhen at 61.915 km with 17,494,398 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 9.733 km. Compared with Guangzhou, Dongguan's recorded population is 0.60 times as large. Against Dongguan, Guangzhou follows Guangzhou Shi → Guangdong → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Dongguan's. Against Dongguan, Bao'an follows Guangdong → 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 Dongguan's. Against Dongguan, Shenzhen follows Shenzhen → Guangdong → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Dongguan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 452 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dongguan's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1812545, the coordinate pair 23.0180 / 113.7487, country rank 8 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1809858 at 52.182 km bind Dongguan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dongguan's reference point is 23.0180° north and 113.7487° 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. Dongguan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dongguan's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dongguan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dongguan, 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
Dongguan's closest other entries in this atlas are Guangzhou (52.182 km), Bao'an (53.595 km), Shenzhen (61.915 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-03-26; 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.