Lüliang

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Lüliang is GeoNames ID 13512505. Its recorded administrative path is Lueliang → Shanxi → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat.

Lüliang 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 2025-08-20; 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, Lüliang ranks 103 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 39; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 67.

Its 3,346,500 population value is 2.87 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 3.32 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Lüliang falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort.

Lüliang'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

Lüliang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Taiyuan at 130.526 km with 4,303,673 recorded people; Jinzhong at 143.044 km with 1,226,617 recorded people; Linfen at 162.501 km with 959,198 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 31.975 km. Compared with Taiyuan, Lüliang's recorded population is 0.78 times as large. Against Lüliang, Taiyuan follows Taiyuan 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat.

Its recorded population is above Lüliang's. Against Lüliang, Jinzhong follows Jinzhong 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Lüliang's. Against Lüliang, Linfen follows Linfen 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Lüliang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 819 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Lüliang'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 13512505, the coordinate pair 37.5192 / 111.1444, country rank 39 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1793511 at 130.526 km bind Lüliang 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

Lüliang's reference point is 37.5192° north and 111.1444° 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. Lüliang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.

Lüliang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Lüliang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Lüliang, 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.