1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of E’zhou, 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 E’zhou—668,727, 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 E’zhou is GeoNames ID 6642286. Its recorded administrative path is Huanggang Shi → Hubei → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. E’zhou 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 2025-08-19; 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, E’zhou ranks 825 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 240; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 462. Its 668,727 population value is 0.57 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.66 times the 1,008,426 regional median. E’zhou sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. E’zhou'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.
E’zhou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Huangshi at 22.696 km with 688,090 recorded people; Wuhan at 62.94 km with 10,392,693 recorded people; Xianning at 81.999 km with 512,517 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 59.303 km. Compared with Huangshi, E’zhou's recorded population is 0.97 times as large. Against E’zhou, Huangshi follows Huangshi Shi → Hubei → 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 E’zhou's. Against E’zhou, Wuhan follows Wuhan Shi → Hubei → 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 E’zhou's. Against E’zhou, Xianning follows Xianning Prefecture → Hubei → 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 E’zhou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 284 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. E’zhou's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 6642286, the coordinate pair 30.3961 / 114.8866, country rank 240 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1807234 at 22.696 km bind E’zhou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
E’zhou's reference point is 30.3961° north and 114.8866° 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. E’zhou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. E’zhou's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. E’zhou's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for E’zhou, 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
E’zhou's closest other entries in this atlas are Huangshi (22.696 km), Wuhan (62.94 km), Xianning (81.999 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting E’zhou, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-19; 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.