1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Jiaozhou, 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 Jiaozhou—619,266, 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 Jiaozhou is GeoNames ID 1806096. Its recorded administrative path is Qingdao Shi → Shandong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Jiaozhou 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 2022-04-01; 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, Jiaozhou ranks 899 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 251; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 488. Its 619,266 population value is 0.53 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.61 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Jiaozhou sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Jiaozhou'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.
Jiaozhou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Qingdao at 41.698 km with 7,172,451 recorded people; Pingdu at 55.891 km with 542,234 recorded people; Zhu Cheng City at 62.785 km with 1,000,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 21.087 km. Compared with Qingdao, Jiaozhou's recorded population is 0.09 times as large. Against Jiaozhou, Qingdao follows Qingdao Shi → Shandong → 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Jiaozhou's. Against Jiaozhou, Pingdu follows Qingdao Shi → Shandong → 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 third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Jiaozhou's. Against Jiaozhou, Zhu Cheng City follows Weifang Shi → Shandong → 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 the same third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Jiaozhou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 371 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jiaozhou'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 1806096, the coordinate pair 36.2839 / 120.0033, country rank 251 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1797929 at 41.698 km bind Jiaozhou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Jiaozhou's reference point is 36.2839° north and 120.0033° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Jiaozhou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Jiaozhou's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jiaozhou's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jiaozhou, 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
Jiaozhou's closest other entries in this atlas are Qingdao (41.698 km), Pingdu (55.891 km), Zhu Cheng City (62.785 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-04-01; 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.