1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Vietnam
Compare this sourced profile of Huế, Vietnam 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 Huế—1,380,000, Asia/Bangkok, 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: former provincial city of Thừa Thiên Huế province, Vietnam.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Huế is GeoNames ID 1580240. Its recorded administrative path is Thanh Pho Hue → Thua Thien Hue Province → Vietnam, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Huế 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 2026-04-14; 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, Huế ranks 363 by recorded population. Inside the 13 selected Vietnam entries it ranks 5; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 214. Its 1,380,000 population value is 1.08 times the 1,272,235 median for the country cohort and 1.37 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Huế sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Vietnam population cohort. Huế'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.
Huế's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Da Nang at 79.855 km with 1,276,000 recorded people; Sanya at 284.578 km with 1,031,396 recorded people; Vinh at 318.064 km with 790,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 238.209 km. Compared with Da Nang, Huế's recorded population is 1.08 times as large. Against Huế, Da Nang follows Da Nang City → Vietnam in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh instead of Asia/Bangkok, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Huế's. Against Huế, Sanya follows Sanya Shi → Hainan → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected China cohort rather than Vietnam, uses Asia/Shanghai instead of Asia/Bangkok, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Huế's. Against Huế, Vinh follows Thanh Pho Vinh → Nghe An Province → Vietnam in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses the shared Asia/Bangkok identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Huế's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 611 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Huế'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 1580240, the coordinate pair 16.4619 / 107.5955, country rank 5 of 13, and neighbor GeoNames 1583992 at 79.855 km bind Huế to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Huế's reference point is 16.4619° north and 107.5955° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Bangkok is shared by 7 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Huế's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Huế's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Huế's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Huế, 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
Huế's closest other entries in this atlas are Da Nang (79.855 km), Sanya (284.578 km), Vinh (318.064 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.