1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Guangzhou, 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 Guangzhou—16,096,724, 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: capital city of Guangdong Province, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Guangzhou is GeoNames ID 1809858. Its recorded administrative path is Guangzhou Shi → Guangdong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Guangzhou 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 2026-04-13; 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, Guangzhou ranks 4 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 4; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 4. Its 16,096,724 population value is 13.81 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 15.96 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Guangzhou falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Guangzhou'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.
Guangzhou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Foshan at 15.714 km with 9,042,509 recorded people; Dongguan at 52.182 km with 9,644,871 recorded people; Jiangmen at 61.715 km with 1,795,459 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 46.001 km. Compared with Foshan, Guangzhou's recorded population is 1.78 times as large. Against Guangzhou, Foshan follows Foshan 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Guangzhou's. Against Guangzhou, Dongguan follows Dongguan Shi → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Guangzhou's. Against Guangzhou, 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Guangzhou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 216 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Guangzhou'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 1809858, the coordinate pair 23.1167 / 113.2500, country rank 4 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1811103 at 15.714 km bind Guangzhou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Guangzhou's reference point is 23.1167° north and 113.2500° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Guangzhou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Guangzhou's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Guangzhou's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Guangzhou, 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
Guangzhou's closest other entries in this atlas are Foshan (15.714 km), Dongguan (52.182 km), Jiangmen (61.715 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Guangzhou, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.