1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Shangqiu, 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 Shangqiu—1,859,723, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Shangqiu is GeoNames ID 1796134. Its recorded administrative path is Shangqiu Shi → Henan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Shangqiu 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 2026-04-28; 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, Shangqiu ranks 225 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 74; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 133. Its 1,859,723 population value is 1.60 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.84 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shangqiu falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Shangqiu'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.
Shangqiu's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bozhou at 60.637 km with 1,409,436 recorded people; Heze at 93.236 km with 1,346,717 recorded people; Huaibei at 115.324 km with 1,113,321 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 54.687 km. Compared with Bozhou, Shangqiu's recorded population is 1.32 times as large. Against Shangqiu, Bozhou follows Bozhou → Anhui → 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 below Shangqiu's. Against Shangqiu, Heze follows Heze Shi → Shandong → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Shangqiu's. Against Shangqiu, Huaibei follows Huaibei Shi → Anhui → 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 below Shangqiu's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 507 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shangqiu'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 1796134, the coordinate pair 34.4143 / 115.6561, country rank 74 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1816234 at 60.637 km bind Shangqiu to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shangqiu's reference point is 34.4143° north and 115.6561° 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. Shangqiu's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shangqiu's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shangqiu's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shangqiu, 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
Shangqiu's closest other entries in this atlas are Bozhou (60.637 km), Heze (93.236 km), Huaibei (115.324 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-28; 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.