1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Foshan—9,042,509, 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 Foshan is GeoNames ID 1811103. Its recorded administrative path is Foshan Shi → Guangdong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Foshan 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 2025-10-22; 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, Foshan ranks 28 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 12; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 20. Its 9,042,509 population value is 7.76 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 8.97 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Foshan falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Foshan'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.
Foshan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Guangzhou at 15.714 km with 16,096,724 recorded people; Jiangmen at 49.555 km with 1,795,459 recorded people; Zhongshan at 61.496 km with 3,841,873 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 45.782 km. Compared with Guangzhou, Foshan's recorded population is 0.56 times as large. Against Foshan, Guangzhou follows Guangzhou Shi → Guangdong → China in the source. Its point has higher 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 Foshan's. Against Foshan, Jiangmen follows Jiangmen Shi → Guangdong → 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 Foshan's. Against Foshan, Zhongshan follows Zhongshan Prefecture → 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 below Foshan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 216 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Foshan'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 1811103, the coordinate pair 23.0268 / 113.1315, country rank 12 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1809858 at 15.714 km bind Foshan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Foshan's reference point is 23.0268° north and 113.1315° 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. Foshan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Foshan's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Foshan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Foshan, 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
Foshan's closest other entries in this atlas are Guangzhou (15.714 km), Jiangmen (49.555 km), Zhongshan (61.496 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-10-22; 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.