1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Qingyuan, 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 Qingyuan—1,738,424, 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 Guangdong, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Qingyuan is GeoNames ID 1797945. Its recorded administrative path is Qingyuan Shi → Guangdong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Qingyuan 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 2021-10-14; 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, Qingyuan ranks 253 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 83; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 148. Its 1,738,424 population value is 1.49 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.72 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Qingyuan sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Qingyuan'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.
Qingyuan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Guangzhou at 68.528 km with 16,096,724 recorded people; Foshan at 75.527 km with 9,042,509 recorded people; Zhaoqing at 93.031 km with 1,553,109 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 24.503 km. Compared with Guangzhou, Qingyuan's recorded population is 0.11 times as large. Against Qingyuan, Guangzhou follows Guangzhou Shi → Guangdong → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Qingyuan's. Against Qingyuan, Foshan follows Foshan Shi → Guangdong → 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 Qingyuan's. Against Qingyuan, Zhaoqing follows Zhaoqing Shi → Guangdong → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Qingyuan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 548 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Qingyuan'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 1797945, the coordinate pair 23.7000 / 113.0333, country rank 83 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1809858 at 68.528 km bind Qingyuan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Qingyuan's reference point is 23.7000° north and 113.0333° 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. Qingyuan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Qingyuan's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Qingyuan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Qingyuan, 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
Qingyuan's closest other entries in this atlas are Guangzhou (68.528 km), Foshan (75.527 km), Zhaoqing (93.031 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-10-14; 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.