1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Rui'an, 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 Rui'an—927,383, 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: county-level city in China's Zhejiang province.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Rui'an is GeoNames ID 1797063. Its recorded administrative path is Wenzhou Shi → Zhejiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Rui’an 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 2024-07-12; 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, Rui'an ranks 594 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 189; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 346. Its 927,383 population value is 0.80 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.92 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Rui'an sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Rui'an'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.
Rui'an's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Wenzhou at 24.851 km with 2,650,000 recorded people; Taizhou (Zhejiang) at 124.411 km with 1,485,502 recorded people; Guli at 137.335 km with 536,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 112.484 km. Compared with Wenzhou, Rui'an's recorded population is 0.35 times as large. Against Rui'an, Wenzhou follows Wenzhou Shi → Zhejiang → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Rui'an's. Against Rui'an, Taizhou (Zhejiang) follows Taizhou Shi → Zhejiang → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Rui'an's. Against Rui'an, Guli follows Jinhua Shi → Zhejiang → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Rui'an's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 296 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Rui'an's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter 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 1797063, the coordinate pair 27.7761 / 120.6586, country rank 189 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1791388 at 24.851 km bind Rui'an to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Rui'an's reference point is 27.7761° north and 120.6586° 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. Rui'an's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Rui'an's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Rui'an's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Rui'an, 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
Rui'an's closest other entries in this atlas are Wenzhou (24.851 km), Taizhou (Zhejiang) (124.411 km), Guli (137.335 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-12; 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.