1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Linfen, 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 Linfen—959,198, 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 Shanxi Province, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Linfen is GeoNames ID 1803567. Its recorded administrative path is Linfen Shi → Shanxi → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Linfen 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 2024-07-12; 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, Linfen ranks 581 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 185; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 338. Its 959,198 population value is 0.82 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.95 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Linfen sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Linfen'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.
Linfen's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Changzhi (Yuncheng Shi) at 99.845 km with 699,514 recorded people; Yuncheng at 127.713 km with 680,036 recorded people; Changzhi (Changzhi Shi) at 142.852 km with 1,214,940 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 43.007 km. Compared with Changzhi (Yuncheng Shi), Linfen's recorded population is 1.37 times as large. Against Linfen, Changzhi (Yuncheng Shi) follows Yuncheng Shi → Shanxi → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is below Linfen's. Against Linfen, Yuncheng follows Yuncheng Shi → Shanxi → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Linfen's. Against Linfen, Changzhi (Changzhi Shi) follows Changzhi Shi → Shanxi → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Linfen's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 698 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Linfen'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 1803567, the coordinate pair 36.0889 / 111.5189, country rank 185 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1815463 at 99.845 km bind Linfen to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Linfen's reference point is 36.0889° north and 111.5189° 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. Linfen's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Linfen's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Linfen's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Linfen, 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
Linfen's closest other entries in this atlas are Changzhi (Yuncheng Shi) (99.845 km), Yuncheng (127.713 km), Changzhi (Changzhi Shi) (142.852 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-12; 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.