1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Jianshui, 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 Jianshui—490,000, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Jianshui is GeoNames ID 9931406. Its recorded administrative path is Pu'er City → Yunnan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Jianshui 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 2021-09-20; 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, Jianshui ranks 1,170 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 295; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 620. Its 490,000 population value is 0.42 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.49 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Jianshui sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Jianshui'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.
Jianshui's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Chuxiong at 90.436 km with 555,081 recorded people; Kunming at 173.127 km with 3,855,346 recorded people; Baoshan (Yunnan) at 228.084 km with 935,618 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 137.648 km. Compared with Chuxiong, Jianshui's recorded population is 0.88 times as large. Against Jianshui, Chuxiong follows Chuxiong Yizu Zizhizhou → Yunnan → 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 above Jianshui's. Against Jianshui, Kunming follows Kunming Shi → Yunnan → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Jianshui's. Against Jianshui, Baoshan (Yunnan) follows Baoshan Shi → Yunnan → 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 above Jianshui's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 653 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jianshui'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 9931406, the coordinate pair 24.2774 / 101.2240, country rank 295 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1814760 at 90.436 km bind Jianshui to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Jianshui's reference point is 24.2774° north and 101.2240° 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. Jianshui's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Jianshui's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jianshui's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jianshui, 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
Jianshui's closest other entries in this atlas are Chuxiong (90.436 km), Kunming (173.127 km), Baoshan (Yunnan) (228.084 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-09-20; 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.