1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Luoyang, 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 Luoyang—1,390,581, 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 Henan, People's Republic of China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Luoyang is GeoNames ID 1801792. Its recorded administrative path is Luoyang Shi → Henan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Luoyang 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 2025-11-15; 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, Luoyang ranks 360 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 119; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 213. Its 1,390,581 population value is 1.19 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.38 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Luoyang sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Luoyang'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.
Luoyang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Changzhi (Yuncheng Shi) at 87.151 km with 699,514 recorded people; Jiaozuo at 96.458 km with 865,413 recorded people; Zhengzhou at 111.153 km with 4,253,913 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 24.002 km. Compared with Changzhi (Yuncheng Shi), Luoyang's recorded population is 1.99 times as large. Against Luoyang, Changzhi (Yuncheng Shi) follows Yuncheng Shi → Shanxi → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Luoyang's. Against Luoyang, Jiaozuo follows Jiaozuo Shi → Henan → 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 Luoyang's. Against Luoyang, Zhengzhou follows Zhengzhou Shi → Henan → 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 Luoyang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 643 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Luoyang'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 1801792, the coordinate pair 34.6735 / 112.4368, country rank 119 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1815463 at 87.151 km bind Luoyang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Luoyang's reference point is 34.6735° north and 112.4368° 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. Luoyang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Luoyang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Luoyang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Luoyang, 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
Luoyang's closest other entries in this atlas are Changzhi (Yuncheng Shi) (87.151 km), Jiaozuo (96.458 km), Zhengzhou (111.153 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-11-15; 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.