1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Hohhot, 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 Hohhot—2,350,000, 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 China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Hohhot is GeoNames ID 2036892. Its recorded administrative path is Hohhot Shi → Inner Mongolia → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Hohhot 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, Hohhot ranks 166 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 56; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 105. Its 2,350,000 population value is 2.02 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 2.33 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Hohhot falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Hohhot'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.
Hohhot's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ulanqab at 126.093 km with 550,231 recorded people; Baotou at 153.391 km with 2,150,000 recorded people; Datong at 159.971 km with 1,850,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 33.878 km. Compared with Ulanqab, Hohhot's recorded population is 4.27 times as large. Against Hohhot, Ulanqab follows Wulanchabu Shi → Inner Mongolia → 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 Hohhot's. Against Hohhot, Baotou follows Baotou Shi → Inner Mongolia → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Hohhot's. Against Hohhot, Datong follows Datong Shi → Shanxi → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Hohhot's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 806 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Hohhot'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 2036892, the coordinate pair 40.8106 / 111.6522, country rank 56 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 8335361 at 126.093 km bind Hohhot to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Hohhot's reference point is 40.8106° north and 111.6522° 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. Hohhot's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Hohhot's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Hohhot's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Hohhot, 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
Hohhot's closest other entries in this atlas are Ulanqab (126.093 km), Baotou (153.391 km), Datong (159.971 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.