1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Luancheng, 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 Luancheng—597,130, 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: town in Hebei, People's Republic of China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Luancheng is GeoNames ID 1802204. Its recorded administrative path is Shijiazhuang Shi → Hebei → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Luancheng 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 2023-12-11; 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, Luancheng ranks 935 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 258; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 506. Its 597,130 population value is 0.51 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.59 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Luancheng sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Luancheng'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.
Luancheng's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Shijiazhuang at 22.811 km with 3,938,513 recorded people; Xingtai at 92.44 km with 798,770 recorded people; Hengshui at 92.538 km with 522,147 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 69.727 km. Compared with Shijiazhuang, Luancheng's recorded population is 0.15 times as large. Against Luancheng, Shijiazhuang follows Shijiazhuang Shi → Hebei → 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 Luancheng's. Against Luancheng, Xingtai follows Xingtai County → Hebei → 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 Luancheng's. Against Luancheng, Hengshui follows Hengshui Shi → Hebei → 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Luancheng's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 286 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Luancheng'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 1802204, the coordinate pair 37.8845 / 114.6463, country rank 258 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1795270 at 22.811 km bind Luancheng to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Luancheng's reference point is 37.8845° north and 114.6463° 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. Luancheng's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Luancheng's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Luancheng's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Luancheng, 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
Luancheng's closest other entries in this atlas are Shijiazhuang (22.811 km), Xingtai (92.44 km), Hengshui (92.538 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-12-11; 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.