1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Sanming, 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 Sanming—602,166, 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 Fujian, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sanming is GeoNames ID 1796663. Its recorded administrative path is Sanming Shi → Fujian → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Sanming 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 2021-10-08; 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, Sanming ranks 927 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 256; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 500. Its 602,166 population value is 0.52 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.60 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Sanming sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Sanming's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Sanming's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Longyan at 143.739 km with 1,025,087 recorded people; Putian at 165.804 km with 1,539,389 recorded people; Fuzhou (Fujian) at 169.708 km with 3,740,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 25.969 km. Compared with Longyan, Sanming's recorded population is 0.59 times as large. Against Sanming, Longyan follows Longyan Shi → Fujian → 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 above Sanming's. Against Sanming, Putian follows Putian Shi → Fujian → 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 Sanming's. Against Sanming, Fuzhou (Fujian) follows Fuzhou Shi → Fujian → 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 Sanming's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 857 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sanming'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 1796663, the coordinate pair 26.2486 / 117.6186, country rank 256 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1802276 at 143.739 km bind Sanming to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sanming's reference point is 26.2486° north and 117.6186° 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. Sanming's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sanming's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sanming's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sanming, 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
Sanming's closest other entries in this atlas are Longyan (143.739 km), Putian (165.804 km), Fuzhou (Fujian) (169.708 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-10-08; 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.