1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Minhang, 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 Minhang—2,716,600, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Minhang is GeoNames ID 1800480. Its recorded administrative path is Shanghai Municipality → Shanghai → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a fourth-order administrative seat. Minhang 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 2026-03-31; 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, Minhang ranks 139 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 50; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 89. Its 2,716,600 population value is 2.33 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 2.69 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Minhang falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Minhang'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.
Minhang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Xuhui at 11.887 km with 1,109,800 recorded people; Changning at 12.853 km with 694,900 recorded people; Shanghai at 14.897 km with 24,874,500 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 3.01 km. Compared with Xuhui, Minhang's recorded population is 2.45 times as large. Against Minhang, Xuhui follows Shanghai Municipality → Shanghai → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than fourth-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Minhang's. Against Minhang, Changning follows Shanghai Municipality → Shanghai → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than fourth-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Minhang's. Against Minhang, Shanghai follows Shanghai Municipality → Shanghai → 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 fourth-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Minhang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 172 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Minhang'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 1800480, the coordinate pair 31.1088 / 121.3747, country rank 50 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1787957 at 11.887 km bind Minhang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Minhang's reference point is 31.1088° north and 121.3747° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA4 is shared by 4 rows. Minhang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Minhang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Minhang's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Minhang, 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
Minhang's closest other entries in this atlas are Xuhui (11.887 km), Changning (12.853 km), Shanghai (14.897 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-03-31; 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.