1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Hegang, 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 Hegang—743,307, 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 Heilongjiang, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Hegang is GeoNames ID 2036986. Its recorded administrative path is Hegang Shi → Heilongjiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Hegang 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 2021-12-15; 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, Hegang ranks 738 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 221; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 419. Its 743,307 population value is 0.64 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.74 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Hegang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Hegang's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Hegang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jiamusi at 61.195 km with 549,549 recorded people; Shuangyashan at 98.164 km with 600,000 recorded people; Mudanjiang at 315.467 km with 665,915 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 254.272 km. Compared with Jiamusi, Hegang's recorded population is 1.35 times as large. Against Hegang, Jiamusi follows Jiamusi Shi → Heilongjiang → 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 Hegang's. Against Hegang, Shuangyashan follows Shuangyashan Shi → Heilongjiang → 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 Hegang's. Against Hegang, Mudanjiang follows Mudanjiang Shi → Heilongjiang → 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 Hegang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 509 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Hegang'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 2036986, the coordinate pair 47.3473 / 130.2903, country rank 221 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 2036581 at 61.195 km bind Hegang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Hegang's reference point is 47.3473° north and 130.2903° 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. Hegang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Hegang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Hegang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Hegang, 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
Hegang's closest other entries in this atlas are Jiamusi (61.195 km), Shuangyashan (98.164 km), Mudanjiang (315.467 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-12-15; 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.