1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Hong Kong
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Sha Tin—495,200, Asia/Hong_Kong, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sha Tin is GeoNames ID 1818920. Its recorded administrative path is Sha Tin → Hong Kong, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Sha Tin 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 2026-02-01; 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, Sha Tin ranks 1,158 by recorded population. Inside the 4 selected Hong Kong entries it ranks 4; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 613. Its 495,200 population value is 0.68 times the 732,350 median for the country cohort and 0.49 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Sha Tin is rank 4 among the 4 selected Hong Kong entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Sha Tin'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.
Sha Tin's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Victoria at 11.392 km with 956,800 recorded people; Hong Kong at 11.71 km with 7,396,076 recorded people; Shenzhen at 21.565 km with 17,494,398 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 10.173 km. Compared with Victoria, Sha Tin's recorded population is 0.52 times as large. Against Sha Tin, Victoria follows Central and Western → Hong Kong in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Hong Kong cohort, uses the shared Asia/Hong_Kong identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Sha Tin's. Against Sha Tin, Hong Kong follows Hong Kong in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Hong Kong cohort, uses the shared Asia/Hong_Kong identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Sha Tin's. Against Sha Tin, Shenzhen follows Shenzhen → Guangdong → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected China cohort rather than Hong Kong, uses Asia/Shanghai instead of Asia/Hong_Kong, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Sha Tin's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 166 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sha Tin'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 1818920, the coordinate pair 22.3833 / 114.1833, country rank 4 of 4, and neighbor GeoNames 1931681 at 11.392 km bind Sha Tin to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sha Tin's reference point is 22.3833° north and 114.1833° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Hong_Kong is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Sha Tin's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Sha Tin's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sha Tin's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sha Tin, 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
Sha Tin's closest other entries in this atlas are Victoria (11.392 km), Hong Kong (11.71 km), Shenzhen (21.565 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-02-01; 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.