1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Guiyang, 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 Guiyang—3,037,159, 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 of Guizhou province, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Guiyang is GeoNames ID 1809461. Its recorded administrative path is Guiyang Shi → Guizhou → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Guiyang 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, Guiyang ranks 115 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 43; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 76. Its 3,037,159 population value is 2.61 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 3.01 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Guiyang falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Guiyang'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.
Guiyang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Anshun at 86.366 km with 765,313 recorded people; Zunyi at 124.126 km with 2,037,775 recorded people; Bijie at 162.753 km with 1,137,383 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 76.387 km. Compared with Anshun, Guiyang's recorded population is 3.97 times as large. Against Guiyang, Anshun follows Anshun Shi → Guizhou → 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 Guiyang's. Against Guiyang, Zunyi follows Zunyi Shi → Guizhou → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Guiyang's. Against Guiyang, Bijie follows Bijie Diqu → Guizhou → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Guiyang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 640 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Guiyang's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half 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 1809461, the coordinate pair 26.5833 / 106.7167, country rank 43 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1817968 at 86.366 km bind Guiyang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Guiyang's reference point is 26.5833° north and 106.7167° 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. Guiyang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Guiyang's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Guiyang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Guiyang, 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
Guiyang's closest other entries in this atlas are Anshun (86.366 km), Zunyi (124.126 km), Bijie (162.753 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.