Kaohsiung

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Kaohsiung is GeoNames ID 1673820. Its recorded administrative path is Kaohsiung → Takao → Taiwan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat.

Kaohsiung 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 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Kaohsiung ranks 135 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Taiwan entries it ranks 4; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 88.

Its 2,737,660 population value is 0.98 times the 2,793,973 median for the country cohort and 2.71 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kaohsiung is rank 4 among the 6 selected Taiwan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort.

Kaohsiung'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

Kaohsiung's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tainan at 42.893 km with 1,856,642 recorded people; Taichung at 174.351 km with 2,850,285 recorded people; Banqiao District at 291.333 km with 551,221 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 248.44 km. Compared with Tainan, Kaohsiung's recorded population is 1.47 times as large. Against Kaohsiung, Tainan follows Tainan → Taiwan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Taiwan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Taipei identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat.

Its recorded population is below Kaohsiung's. Against Kaohsiung, Taichung follows Taichung City → Taiwan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Taiwan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Taipei identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Kaohsiung's. Against Kaohsiung, Banqiao District follows New Taipei City → Taipei → Taiwan in the source.

Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Taiwan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Taipei identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kaohsiung's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 379 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kaohsiung'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 1673820, the coordinate pair 22.6163 / 120.3133, country rank 4 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 1668355 at 42.893 km bind Kaohsiung to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Kaohsiung's reference point is 22.6163° north and 120.3133° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Taipei is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Kaohsiung's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.

Kaohsiung's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kaohsiung's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kaohsiung, 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.