1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Meizhou, 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 Meizhou—992,351, 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 Guangdong, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Meizhou is GeoNames ID 1800779. Its recorded administrative path is Meizhou Shi → Guangdong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Meizhou 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 2024-07-13; 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, Meizhou ranks 558 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 177; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 324. Its 992,351 population value is 0.85 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.98 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Meizhou sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Meizhou'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.
Meizhou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jieyang at 86.785 km with 1,899,394 recorded people; Chaozhou at 87.246 km with 1,750,945 recorded people; Puning at 108.858 km with 874,954 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 22.073 km. Compared with Jieyang, Meizhou's recorded population is 0.52 times as large. Against Meizhou, Jieyang follows Jieyang Shi → Guangdong → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Meizhou's. Against Meizhou, Chaozhou follows Chaozhou Shi → Guangdong → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Meizhou's. Against Meizhou, Puning follows Jieyang Shi → Guangdong → 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 Meizhou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 642 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Meizhou'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 1800779, the coordinate pair 24.2886 / 116.1177, country rank 177 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1797121 at 86.785 km bind Meizhou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Meizhou's reference point is 24.2886° north and 116.1177° 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. Meizhou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Meizhou's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Meizhou's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Meizhou, 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
Meizhou's closest other entries in this atlas are Jieyang (86.785 km), Chaozhou (87.246 km), Puning (108.858 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-13; 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.