1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Handan, 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 Handan—1,358,318, 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 Handan is GeoNames ID 1808963. Its recorded administrative path is Handan Shi → Hebei → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Handan 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 2026-04-29; 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, Handan ranks 368 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 121; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 217. Its 1,358,318 population value is 1.17 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.35 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Handan sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Handan'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.
Handan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Xingtai at 50.282 km with 798,770 recorded people; Anyang at 57.919 km with 1,146,839 recorded people; Hebi at 99.255 km with 634,721 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 48.973 km. Compared with Xingtai, Handan's recorded population is 1.70 times as large. Against Handan, Xingtai follows Xingtai County → Hebei → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Handan's. Against Handan, Anyang follows Anyang Shi → Henan → 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 Handan's. Against Handan, Hebi follows Hebi Shi → Henan → 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 Handan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 440 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Handan's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1808963, the coordinate pair 36.6100 / 114.4876, country rank 121 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1788927 at 50.282 km bind Handan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Handan's reference point is 36.6100° north and 114.4876° 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. Handan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Handan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Handan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Handan, 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
Handan's closest other entries in this atlas are Xingtai (50.282 km), Anyang (57.919 km), Hebi (99.255 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-29; 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.