1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Qiqihar, 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 Qiqihar—882,364, 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: City in Heilongjiang, China, and its surrounding prefecture.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Qiqihar is GeoNames ID 2035265. Its recorded administrative path is Qiqihar Shi → Heilongjiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Qiqihar 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 2024-05-07; 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, Qiqihar ranks 631 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 197; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 365. Its 882,364 population value is 0.76 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.87 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Qiqihar sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Qiqihar'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.
Qiqihar's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Daqing at 115.217 km with 1,604,027 recorded people; Harbin at 271.085 km with 5,242,897 recorded people; Changchun at 398.938 km with 4,714,996 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 283.721 km. Compared with Daqing, Qiqihar's recorded population is 0.55 times as large. Against Qiqihar, Daqing follows Daqing Shi → Heilongjiang → 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 Qiqihar's. Against Qiqihar, Harbin follows Harbin Shi → Heilongjiang → 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 Qiqihar's. Against Qiqihar, Changchun follows Changchun Shi → Jilin → 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 Qiqihar's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 749 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Qiqihar'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 2035265, the coordinate pair 47.3392 / 123.9615, country rank 197 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 2037860 at 115.217 km bind Qiqihar to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Qiqihar's reference point is 47.3392° north and 123.9615° 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. Qiqihar's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Qiqihar's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Qiqihar's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Qiqihar, 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
Qiqihar's closest other entries in this atlas are Daqing (115.217 km), Harbin (271.085 km), Changchun (398.938 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-05-07; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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