1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Korla, 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 Korla—549,324, Asia/Urumqi, 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 Korla is GeoNames ID 1529376. Its recorded administrative path is Bayinguoleng Menggu Zizhizhou → Xinjiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Korla 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 2022-02-01; 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, Korla ranks 1,017 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 269; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 540. Its 549,324 population value is 0.47 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.54 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Korla sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Korla'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.
Korla's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ürümqi at 255.81 km with 3,029,372 recorded people; Shihezi at 282.785 km with 572,772 recorded people; Aqsu at 493.4 km with 535,657 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 237.59 km. Compared with Ürümqi, Korla's recorded population is 0.18 times as large. Against Korla, Ürümqi follows Urumqi Shi → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Urumqi identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Korla's. Against Korla, Shihezi follows Shihezi → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Urumqi identifier, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Korla's. Against Korla, Aqsu follows Aksu Diqu → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Urumqi identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Korla's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,077 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Korla'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 1529376, the coordinate pair 41.7606 / 86.1523, country rank 269 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1529102 at 255.81 km bind Korla to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Korla's reference point is 41.7606° north and 86.1523° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Urumqi is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Korla's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Korla's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Korla's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Korla, 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
Korla's closest other entries in this atlas are Ürümqi (255.81 km), Shihezi (282.785 km), Aqsu (493.4 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-02-01; 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.