1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Pingdingshan, 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 Pingdingshan—979,130, 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 Henan, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Pingdingshan is GeoNames ID 1798827. Its recorded administrative path is Pingdingshan Shi → Henan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Pingdingshan 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 2025-12-15; 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, Pingdingshan ranks 566 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 181; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 329. Its 979,130 population value is 0.84 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.97 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Pingdingshan sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Pingdingshan'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.
Pingdingshan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Xuchang at 60.614 km with 1,265,536 recorded people; Luohe at 68.62 km with 1,294,974 recorded people; Zhumadian at 106.078 km with 721,670 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 45.464 km. Compared with Xuchang, Pingdingshan's recorded population is 0.77 times as large. Against Pingdingshan, Xuchang follows Xuchang 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 above Pingdingshan's. Against Pingdingshan, Luohe follows Luohe 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 above Pingdingshan's. Against Pingdingshan, 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 Pingdingshan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 506 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Pingdingshan'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 1798827, the coordinate pair 33.7309 / 113.3155, country rank 181 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1788046 at 60.614 km bind Pingdingshan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Pingdingshan's reference point is 33.7309° north and 113.3155° 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. Pingdingshan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Pingdingshan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Pingdingshan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Pingdingshan, 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
Pingdingshan's closest other entries in this atlas are Xuchang (60.614 km), Luohe (68.62 km), Zhumadian (106.078 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-15; 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.