1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Nantong, 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 Nantong—2,273,326, 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 Jiangsu, China, on the north side of the mouth of the Yangtze River.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Nantong is GeoNames ID 1799722. Its recorded administrative path is Nantong Shi → Jiangsu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Nantong 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 2025-03-09; 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, Nantong ranks 173 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 58; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 108. Its 2,273,326 population value is 1.95 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 2.25 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Nantong falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Nantong's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Nantong's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zhangjiagang at 36.63 km with 1,432,044 recorded people; Changshu at 44.51 km with 1,677,050 recorded people; Jiangyin at 59.205 km with 1,779,515 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 22.575 km. Compared with Zhangjiagang, Nantong's recorded population is 1.59 times as large. Against Nantong, Zhangjiagang follows Suzhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Nantong's. Against Nantong, Changshu follows Suzhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Nantong's. Against Nantong, Jiangyin follows Wuxi Shi → Jiangsu → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Nantong's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 346 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nantong'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 1799722, the coordinate pair 32.0303 / 120.8747, country rank 58 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1787331 at 36.63 km bind Nantong to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Nantong's reference point is 32.0303° north and 120.8747° 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. Nantong's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Nantong's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nantong's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nantong, 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
Nantong's closest other entries in this atlas are Zhangjiagang (36.63 km), Changshu (44.51 km), Jiangyin (59.205 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-03-09; 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.