1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Putuo, 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 Putuo—1,239,100, 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 Putuo is GeoNames ID 1798439. Its recorded administrative path is Shanghai Municipality → Shanghai → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Putuo 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 2026-03-31; 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, Putuo ranks 421 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 138; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 247. Its 1,239,100 population value is 1.06 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.23 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Putuo sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Putuo'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.
Putuo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Changning at 4.78 km with 694,900 recorded people; Shanghai at 7.244 km with 24,874,500 recorded people; Xuhui at 8.201 km with 1,109,800 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 3.421 km. Compared with Changning, Putuo's recorded population is 1.78 times as large. Against Putuo, Changning follows Shanghai Municipality → Shanghai → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Putuo's. Against Putuo, Shanghai follows Shanghai Municipality → Shanghai → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Putuo's. Against Putuo, Xuhui follows Shanghai Municipality → Shanghai → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Putuo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 40 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Putuo's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. 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 1798439, the coordinate pair 31.2510 / 121.3897, country rank 138 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1815611 at 4.78 km bind Putuo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Putuo's reference point is 31.2510° north and 121.3897° 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. Putuo's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Putuo's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Putuo's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Putuo, 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
Putuo's closest other entries in this atlas are Changning (4.78 km), Shanghai (7.244 km), Xuhui (8.201 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Putuo, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-03-31; 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.