1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
South Korea
Compare this sourced profile of Goyang-si, South Korea 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 Goyang-si—1,061,752, Asia/Seoul, 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 Goyang-si is GeoNames ID 1842485. Its recorded administrative path is Goyang-si → Gyeonggi-do → South Korea, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Goyang-si 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 2025-09-30; 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, Goyang-si ranks 506 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected South Korea entries it ranks 9; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 295. Its 1,061,752 population value is 1.20 times the 883,490 median for the country cohort and 1.05 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Goyang-si sits in the second quarter of this atlas's South Korea population cohort. Goyang-si'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.
Goyang-si's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Seoul at 16.142 km with 10,349,312 recorded people; Bucheon-si at 18.101 km with 850,731 recorded people; Uijeongbu-si at 20.947 km with 479,141 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 4.805 km. Compared with Seoul, Goyang-si's recorded population is 0.10 times as large. Against Goyang-si, Seoul follows Seoul → South Korea in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Goyang-si's. Against Goyang-si, Bucheon-si follows Bucheon-si → Gyeonggi-do → South Korea in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Goyang-si's. Against Goyang-si, Uijeongbu-si follows Uijeongbu-si → Gyeonggi-do → South Korea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Goyang-si's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 226 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Goyang-si'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 1842485, the coordinate pair 37.6564 / 126.8350, country rank 9 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1835848 at 16.142 km bind Goyang-si to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Goyang-si's reference point is 37.6564° north and 126.8350° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Seoul is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Goyang-si's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Goyang-si's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Goyang-si's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Goyang-si, 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
Goyang-si's closest other entries in this atlas are Seoul (16.142 km), Bucheon-si (18.101 km), Uijeongbu-si (20.947 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-09-30; 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.