1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Meishan, 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 Meishan—1,107,742, 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 Sichuan, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Meishan is GeoNames ID 1800818. Its recorded administrative path is Meishan Shi → Sichuan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Meishan 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 2021-10-19; 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, Meishan ranks 489 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 157; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 285. Its 1,107,742 population value is 0.95 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.10 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Meishan sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Meishan'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.
Meishan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Leshan at 54.019 km with 662,814 recorded people; Chengdu at 72.67 km with 13,568,357 recorded people; Ziyang at 78.517 km with 905,729 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 24.498 km. Compared with Leshan, Meishan's recorded population is 1.67 times as large. Against Meishan, Leshan follows Leshan Shi → Sichuan → 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 Meishan's. Against Meishan, Chengdu follows Chengdu Shi → Sichuan → 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 Meishan's. Against Meishan, Ziyang follows Ziyang Shi → Sichuan → 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 Meishan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 475 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Meishan'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 1800818, the coordinate pair 30.0439 / 103.8370, country rank 157 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1804153 at 54.019 km bind Meishan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Meishan's reference point is 30.0439° north and 103.8370° 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. Meishan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Meishan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Meishan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Meishan, 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
Meishan's closest other entries in this atlas are Leshan (54.019 km), Chengdu (72.67 km), Ziyang (78.517 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-10-19; 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.