1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Jinan, 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 Jinan—4,335,989, 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: capital of Shandong province, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Jinan is GeoNames ID 1805753. Its recorded administrative path is Jinan Shi → Shandong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Jinan 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 2026-04-13; 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, Jinan ranks 76 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 26; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 49. Its 4,335,989 population value is 3.72 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 4.30 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Jinan falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Jinan'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.
Jinan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tai'an at 54.824 km with 1,735,425 recorded people; Laiwu at 79.244 km with 989,535 recorded people; Liaocheng at 92.085 km with 1,229,768 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 37.261 km. Compared with Tai'an, Jinan's recorded population is 2.50 times as large. Against Jinan, Tai'an follows Tai'an 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Jinan's. Against Jinan, Laiwu follows Jinan 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 third-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Jinan's. Against Jinan, Liaocheng follows Liaocheng 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Jinan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 478 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jinan'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 1805753, the coordinate pair 36.6683 / 116.9972, country rank 26 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1793724 at 54.824 km bind Jinan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Jinan's reference point is 36.6683° north and 116.9972° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Jinan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Jinan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jinan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jinan, 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
Jinan's closest other entries in this atlas are Tai'an (54.824 km), Laiwu (79.244 km), Liaocheng (92.085 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.