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 Liaoyang—687,890, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: prefecture-level city in Liaoning, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Liaoyang is GeoNames ID 2036113. Its recorded administrative path is Liaoyang Shi → Liaoning → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Liaoyang 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 2021-09-20; 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, Liaoyang ranks 802 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 233; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 448. Its 687,890 population value is 0.59 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.68 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Liaoyang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Liaoyang'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.
Liaoyang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Anshan at 22.508 km with 1,450,000 recorded people; Benxi at 49.498 km with 987,717 recorded people; Shenyang at 61.76 km with 7,050,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 39.252 km. Compared with Anshan, Liaoyang's recorded population is 0.47 times as large. Against Liaoyang, Anshan follows Anshan Shi → Liaoning → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Liaoyang's. Against Liaoyang, Benxi follows Benxi Shi → Liaoning → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is above Liaoyang's. Against Liaoyang, Shenyang follows Shenyang Shi → Liaoning → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Liaoyang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 280 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Liaoyang'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 2036113, the coordinate pair 41.2719 / 123.1731, country rank 233 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 2038632 at 22.508 km bind Liaoyang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Liaoyang's reference point is 41.2719° north and 123.1731° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Liaoyang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Liaoyang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Liaoyang's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Liaoyang, 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
Liaoyang's closest other entries in this atlas are Anshan (22.508 km), Benxi (49.498 km), Shenyang (61.76 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-09-20; 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.