1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Jilin City, 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 Jilin City—1,895,865, 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 Jilin, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Jilin City is GeoNames ID 2036502. Its recorded administrative path is Jilin Shi → Jilin → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Jilin 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 2026-06-01; 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, Jilin City ranks 220 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 72; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 131. Its 1,895,865 population value is 1.63 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.88 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Jilin City falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Jilin City's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Jilin City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Changchun at 99.322 km with 4,714,996 recorded people; Siping at 191.826 km with 555,609 recorded people; Harbin at 211.774 km with 5,242,897 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 112.452 km. Compared with Changchun, Jilin City's recorded population is 0.40 times as large. Against Jilin City, Changchun follows Changchun Shi → Jilin → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Jilin City's. Against Jilin City, Siping follows Siping Shi → Jilin → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Jilin City's. Against Jilin City, Harbin follows Harbin Shi → Heilongjiang → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Jilin City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 695 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jilin City'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 2036502, the coordinate pair 43.8465 / 126.5608, country rank 72 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 2038180 at 99.322 km bind Jilin City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Jilin City's reference point is 43.8465° north and 126.5608° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Jilin City's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Jilin City's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jilin City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jilin City, 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
Jilin City's closest other entries in this atlas are Changchun (99.322 km), Siping (191.826 km), Harbin (211.774 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-01; 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.