Source identity and administrative path
The source row behind Liupanshui is GeoNames ID 8533133. Its recorded administrative path is Lupanshui Shi → Guizhou → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Liupanshui 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 2021-10-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Population position inside fixed cohorts
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Liupanshui ranks 383 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 124; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 224. Its 1,320,825 population value is 1.13 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.31 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Liupanshui sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Liupanshui'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.
Nearest-reference pattern
Liupanshui's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bijie at 90.578 km with 1,137,383 recorded people; Anshun at 116.04 km with 765,313 recorded people; Zhaotong at 136.742 km with 787,845 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 46.164 km. Compared with Bijie, Liupanshui's recorded population is 1.16 times as large. Against Liupanshui, Bijie follows Bijie Diqu → Guizhou → 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 below Liupanshui's. Against Liupanshui, Anshun follows Anshun Shi → Guizhou → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Liupanshui's. Against Liupanshui, Zhaotong follows Zhaotong Shi → Yunnan → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Liupanshui's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 655 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Liupanshui'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 8533133, the coordinate pair 26.5944 / 104.8333, country rank 124 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1816373 at 90.578 km bind Liupanshui to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts
Liupanshui's reference point is 26.5944° north and 104.8333° 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. Liupanshui's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Liupanshui's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Liupanshui's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Liupanshui, 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.
- Record keys
- Liupanshui · GeoNames 8533133 · Q485918
- Name scope
- Liupanshui · 1 atlas row share this source label · qualifier not required
- Administrative chain
- Lupanshui Shi · Guizhou · China
- Coordinate signature
- 26.5944° N · 104.8333° E
- Population snapshot
- 1,320,825 · atlas rank 383 of 1,206
- Country comparison
- China rank 124 of 296 · median 1,165,375 · ratio 1.13×
- Regional comparison
- Asia rank 224 of 632 · median 1,008,426 · ratio 1.31×
- Time-zone cohort
- Asia/Shanghai · 291 of 1,206 atlas rows
- Place-class cohort
- PPL populated place · 243 of 1,206 rows
- Elevation field
- Liupanshui · missing in GeoNames
- Nearest reference
- Bijie · 90.578 km · population 1,137,383 · atlas rank 475
- Second reference
- Anshun · 116.04 km · population 765,313 · atlas rank 720
- Third reference
- Zhaotong · 136.742 km · population 787,845 · atlas rank 705
- Neighbour geometry
- Liupanshui · nearest-distance rank 655 of 1,206 · three-reference spread 46.164 km
- Source dates
- Liupanshui row updated 2021-10-14 · atlas dataset checked 2026-08-04