1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Qingdao, 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 Qingdao—7,172,451, 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 Shandong, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Qingdao is GeoNames ID 1797929. Its recorded administrative path is Qingdao Shi → Shandong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Qingdao 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 2024-03-26; 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, Qingdao ranks 41 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 15; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 28. Its 7,172,451 population value is 6.15 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 7.11 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Qingdao falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Qingdao's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Qingdao's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jiaozhou at 41.698 km with 619,266 recorded people; Zhu Cheng City at 88.273 km with 1,000,000 recorded people; Zhucheng at 88.732 km with 499,285 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 47.034 km. Compared with Jiaozhou, Qingdao's recorded population is 11.58 times as large. Against Qingdao, Jiaozhou follows Qingdao Shi → Shandong → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Qingdao's. Against Qingdao, Zhu Cheng City follows Weifang Shi → Shandong → 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 below Qingdao's. Against Qingdao, Zhucheng follows Weifang Shi → Shandong → 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 below Qingdao's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 371 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Qingdao'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 1797929, the coordinate pair 36.0649 / 120.3804, country rank 15 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1806096 at 41.698 km bind Qingdao to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Qingdao's reference point is 36.0649° north and 120.3804° 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. Qingdao's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Qingdao's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Qingdao's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Qingdao, 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
Qingdao's closest other entries in this atlas are Jiaozhou (41.698 km), Zhu Cheng City (88.273 km), Zhucheng (88.732 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-03-26; 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.