1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Huai'an, 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 Huai'an—2,494,013, 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 Jiangsu, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Huai'an is GeoNames ID 1797873. Its recorded administrative path is Huai'an Shi → Jiangsu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Huai'an 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 2025-12-14; 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, Huai'an ranks 154 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 54; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 98. Its 2,494,013 population value is 2.14 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 2.47 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Huai'an falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Huai'an'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.
Huai'an's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Suqian at 77.961 km with 1,437,685 recorded people; Yancheng at 108.647 km with 1,615,717 recorded people; Lianyungang at 113.736 km with 2,001,009 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 35.775 km. Compared with Suqian, Huai'an's recorded population is 1.73 times as large. Against Huai'an, Suqian follows Suqian Shi → Jiangsu → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Huai'an's. Against Huai'an, Yancheng follows Yancheng Shi → Jiangsu → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Huai'an's. Against Huai'an, Lianyungang follows Lianyungang Shi → Jiangsu → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Huai'an's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 606 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Huai'an'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 1797873, the coordinate pair 33.5886 / 119.0192, country rank 54 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1793771 at 77.961 km bind Huai'an to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Huai'an's reference point is 33.5886° north and 119.0192° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Huai'an's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Huai'an's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Huai'an's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Huai'an, 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
Huai'an's closest other entries in this atlas are Suqian (77.961 km), Yancheng (108.647 km), Lianyungang (113.736 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-14; 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.