1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Ordos—1,940,653, 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 Ordos is GeoNames ID 8347664. Its recorded administrative path is Ordos Shi → Inner Mongolia → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Ordos 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 2021-09-20; 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, Ordos ranks 212 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 70; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 127. Its 1,940,653 population value is 1.67 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.92 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Ordos falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Ordos'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.
Ordos's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Baotou at 116.097 km with 2,150,000 recorded people; Hohhot at 207.589 km with 2,350,000 recorded people; Bayan Nur at 239.344 km with 1,760,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 123.247 km. Compared with Baotou, Ordos's recorded population is 0.90 times as large. Against Ordos, Baotou follows Baotou Shi → Inner Mongolia → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is above Ordos's. Against Ordos, Hohhot follows Hohhot Shi → Inner Mongolia → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is above Ordos's. Against Ordos, Bayan Nur follows Bayannur Shi → Inner Mongolia → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Shanghai identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Ordos's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 753 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ordos'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 8347664, the coordinate pair 39.6086 / 109.7816, country rank 70 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 2038432 at 116.097 km bind Ordos to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ordos's reference point is 39.6086° north and 109.7816° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Ordos's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ordos's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ordos's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Ordos at 2,149 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Ordos's closest other entries in this atlas are Baotou (116.097 km), Hohhot (207.589 km), Bayan Nur (239.344 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-09-20; 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.