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 Linyi—2,743,843, 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 Shandong, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Linyi is GeoNames ID 1803318. Its recorded administrative path is Linyi Shi → Shandong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Linyi 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 2024-07-20; 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, Linyi ranks 133 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 48; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 86. Its 2,743,843 population value is 2.35 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 2.72 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Linyi falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Linyi's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Linyi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zaozhuang at 75.17 km with 899,753 recorded people; Lianyungang at 94.947 km with 2,001,009 recorded people; Rizhao at 114.592 km with 661,943 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 39.422 km. Compared with Zaozhuang, Linyi's recorded population is 3.05 times as large. Against Linyi, Zaozhuang follows Zaozhuang 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Linyi's. Against Linyi, Lianyungang follows Lianyungang Shi → Jiangsu → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Linyi's. Against Linyi, Rizhao follows Rizhao 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Linyi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 586 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Linyi'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 1803318, the coordinate pair 35.0631 / 118.3428, country rank 48 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1785453 at 75.17 km bind Linyi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Linyi's reference point is 35.0631° north and 118.3428° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Linyi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Linyi's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Linyi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Linyi, 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
Linyi's closest other entries in this atlas are Zaozhuang (75.17 km), Lianyungang (94.947 km), Rizhao (114.592 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-20; 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.