1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Heze, 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 Heze—1,346,717, 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 Shandong, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Heze is GeoNames ID 1808198. Its recorded administrative path is Heze Shi → Shandong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Heze 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 2022-01-14; 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, Heze ranks 372 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 123; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 220. Its 1,346,717 population value is 1.16 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.34 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Heze sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Heze'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.
Heze's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Puyang (Henan) at 69.436 km with 655,674 recorded people; Shangqiu at 93.236 km with 1,859,723 recorded people; Jining at 102.181 km with 1,241,012 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 32.745 km. Compared with Puyang (Henan), Heze's recorded population is 2.05 times as large. Against Heze, Puyang (Henan) follows Puyang Shi → Henan → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Heze's. Against Heze, Shangqiu follows Shangqiu Shi → Henan → 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 above Heze's. Against Heze, Jining follows Jining Shi → Shandong → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Heze's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 555 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Heze'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 1808198, the coordinate pair 35.2393 / 115.4736, country rank 123 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 9181182 at 69.436 km bind Heze to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Heze's reference point is 35.2393° north and 115.4736° 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. Heze's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Heze's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Heze's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Heze, 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
Heze's closest other entries in this atlas are Puyang (Henan) (69.436 km), Shangqiu (93.236 km), Jining (102.181 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-01-14; 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.