1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Laiwu—989,535, 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 Laiwu is GeoNames ID 1804591. Its recorded administrative path is Jinan Shi → Shandong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Laiwu 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 2024-03-06; 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, Laiwu ranks 560 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 179; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 326. Its 989,535 population value is 0.85 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.98 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Laiwu sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Laiwu'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.
Laiwu's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tai'an at 48.193 km with 1,735,425 recorded people; Zibo at 75.75 km with 3,129,228 recorded people; Jinan at 79.244 km with 4,335,989 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 31.051 km. Compared with Tai'an, Laiwu's recorded population is 0.57 times as large. Against Laiwu, Tai'an follows Tai'an 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Laiwu's. Against Laiwu, Zibo follows Zibo Shi → Shandong → 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 populated place rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Laiwu's. Against Laiwu, Jinan follows Jinan Shi → Shandong → 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Laiwu's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 417 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Laiwu'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 1804591, the coordinate pair 36.1928 / 117.6569, country rank 179 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1793724 at 48.193 km bind Laiwu to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Laiwu's reference point is 36.1928° north and 117.6569° 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. Laiwu's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Laiwu's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Laiwu's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Laiwu, 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
Laiwu's closest other entries in this atlas are Tai'an (48.193 km), Zibo (75.75 km), Jinan (79.244 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-03-06; 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.