Nanyang

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Nanyang is GeoNames ID 1799629. Its recorded administrative path is Nanyang Shi → Henan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat.

Nanyang 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 2026-03-10; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Nanyang ranks 238 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 77; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 140.

Its 1,811,812 population value is 1.55 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.80 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Nanyang sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort.

Nanyang'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

Nanyang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Pingdingshan at 107.75 km with 979,130 recorded people; Xiangyang at 113.518 km with 1,294,733 recorded people; Zhumadian at 137.979 km with 721,670 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 30.229 km. Compared with Pingdingshan, Nanyang's recorded population is 1.85 times as large. Against Nanyang, Pingdingshan follows Pingdingshan 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 Nanyang's. Against Nanyang, Xiangyang follows Xiangyang → Hubei → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Nanyang's. Against Nanyang, Zhumadian follows Zhumadian Shi → Henan → 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 below Nanyang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 728 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nanyang'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 1799629, the coordinate pair 33.0052 / 112.5466, country rank 77 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1798827 at 107.75 km bind Nanyang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Nanyang's reference point is 33.0052° north and 112.5466° 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. Nanyang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.

Nanyang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nanyang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nanyang, 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.