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 Pingliang—504,848, 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 Gansu, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Pingliang is GeoNames ID 1798760. Its recorded administrative path is Pingliang Shi → Gansu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Pingliang 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 2021-11-11; 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, Pingliang ranks 1,135 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 290; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 597. Its 504,848 population value is 0.43 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.50 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Pingliang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Pingliang's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Pingliang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Qingyang at 88.681 km with 2,125,400 recorded people; Tianshui at 136.984 km with 1,212,791 recorded people; Baoji at 139.598 km with 1,437,802 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 50.917 km. Compared with Qingyang, Pingliang's recorded population is 0.24 times as large. Against Pingliang, Qingyang follows Qingyang Shi → Gansu → 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 Pingliang's. Against Pingliang, Tianshui follows Tianshui Shi → Gansu → 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 above Pingliang's. Against Pingliang, Baoji follows Baoji Shi → Shaanxi → 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 Pingliang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 648 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Pingliang'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 1798760, the coordinate pair 35.5392 / 106.6861, country rank 290 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 12359313 at 88.681 km bind Pingliang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Pingliang's reference point is 35.5392° north and 106.6861° 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. Pingliang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Pingliang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Pingliang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Pingliang, 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
Pingliang's closest other entries in this atlas are Qingyang (88.681 km), Tianshui (136.984 km), Baoji (139.598 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-11-11; 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.