1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Jinzhong, 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 Jinzhong—1,226,617, 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 Jinzhong is GeoNames ID 10942283. Its recorded administrative path is Jinzhong Shi → Shanxi → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Jinzhong 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 2025-08-20; 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, Jinzhong ranks 426 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 141; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 251. Its 1,226,617 population value is 1.05 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.22 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Jinzhong sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Jinzhong'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.
Jinzhong's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Taiyuan at 26.778 km with 4,303,673 recorded people; Yangquan at 73.645 km with 731,228 recorded people; Xinzhou at 80.654 km with 544,683 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 53.876 km. Compared with Taiyuan, Jinzhong's recorded population is 0.29 times as large. Against Jinzhong, Taiyuan follows Taiyuan Shi → Shanxi → 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 Jinzhong's. Against Jinzhong, Yangquan follows Yangquan Shi → Shanxi → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Jinzhong's. Against Jinzhong, Xinzhou follows Xinzhou Shi → Shanxi → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Jinzhong's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 305 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jinzhong'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 10942283, the coordinate pair 37.6840 / 112.7547, country rank 141 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1793511 at 26.778 km bind Jinzhong to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Jinzhong's reference point is 37.6840° north and 112.7547° 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. Jinzhong's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Jinzhong's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jinzhong's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jinzhong, 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
Jinzhong's closest other entries in this atlas are Taiyuan (26.778 km), Yangquan (73.645 km), Xinzhou (80.654 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-20; 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.