1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Kunshan, 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 Kunshan—2,092,496, 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 Kunshan is GeoNames ID 1785623. Its recorded administrative path is Suzhou Shi → Jiangsu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Kunshan 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 2026-01-20; 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, Kunshan ranks 196 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 64; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 117. Its 2,092,496 population value is 1.80 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 2.08 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kunshan falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Kunshan'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.
Kunshan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Taicang at 15.373 km with 831,113 recorded people; Jiading at 27.577 km with 1,886,100 recorded people; Qingpu at 29.141 km with 1,271,424 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 13.768 km. Compared with Taicang, Kunshan's recorded population is 2.52 times as large. Against Kunshan, Taicang follows Suzhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kunshan's. Against Kunshan, Jiading follows Shanghai Municipality → Shanghai → 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 fourth-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kunshan's. Against Kunshan, Qingpu follows Shanghai Municipality → Shanghai → 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 the same third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kunshan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 212 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kunshan's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1785623, the coordinate pair 31.3776 / 120.9543, country rank 64 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1793703 at 15.373 km bind Kunshan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kunshan's reference point is 31.3776° north and 120.9543° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Kunshan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kunshan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kunshan's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kunshan, 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
Kunshan's closest other entries in this atlas are Taicang (15.373 km), Jiading (27.577 km), Qingpu (29.141 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-20; 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.