1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Dongying, 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 Dongying—998,968, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dongying is GeoNames ID 1812101. Its recorded administrative path is Dongying Shi → Shandong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Dongying 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 2025-03-12; 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, Dongying ranks 552 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 175; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 321. Its 998,968 population value is 0.86 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.99 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Dongying sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Dongying's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Dongying's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Binzhou at 43.287 km with 682,717 recorded people; Zibo at 83.833 km with 3,129,228 recorded people; Weifang at 99.678 km with 2,044,028 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 56.391 km. Compared with Binzhou, Dongying's recorded population is 1.46 times as large. Against Dongying, Binzhou follows Binzhou 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Dongying's. Against Dongying, Zibo follows Zibo 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Dongying's. Against Dongying, Weifang follows Weifang 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Dongying's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 382 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dongying'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 1812101, the coordinate pair 37.4627 / 118.4917, country rank 175 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1816336 at 43.287 km bind Dongying to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dongying's reference point is 37.4627° north and 118.4917° 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. Dongying's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dongying's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dongying's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dongying, 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
Dongying's closest other entries in this atlas are Binzhou (43.287 km), Zibo (83.833 km), Weifang (99.678 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-03-12; 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.