1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Shangyu, 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 Shangyu—770,000, 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 Shangyu is GeoNames ID 1817720. Its recorded administrative path is Shaoxing Shi → Zhejiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Shangyu 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 2021-09-19; 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, Shangyu ranks 716 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 216; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 407. Its 770,000 population value is 0.66 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.76 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shangyu sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Shangyu'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.
Shangyu's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Shaoxing at 28.2 km with 2,300,000 recorded people; Cixi at 40.231 km with 1,457,510 recorded people; Ningbo at 67.119 km with 3,731,203 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 38.919 km. Compared with Shaoxing, Shangyu's recorded population is 0.33 times as large. Against Shangyu, Shaoxing follows Shaoxing Shi → Zhejiang → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Shangyu's. Against Shangyu, Cixi follows Ningbo 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 Shangyu's. Against Shangyu, Ningbo follows Ningbo Shi → Zhejiang → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Shangyu's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 312 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shangyu'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 1817720, the coordinate pair 30.0156 / 120.8711, country rank 216 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1795855 at 28.2 km bind Shangyu to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shangyu's reference point is 30.0156° north and 120.8711° 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. Shangyu's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shangyu's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shangyu's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shangyu, 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
Shangyu's closest other entries in this atlas are Shaoxing (28.2 km), Cixi (40.231 km), Ningbo (67.119 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-09-19; 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.