1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Shanwei, 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 Shanwei—491,766, 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 Shanwei is GeoNames ID 1795928. Its recorded administrative path is Shanwei Shi → Guangdong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Shanwei 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, Shanwei ranks 1,164 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 294; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 618. Its 491,766 population value is 0.42 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.49 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shanwei sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Shanwei'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.
Shanwei's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Huizhou at 102.249 km with 2,900,113 recorded people; Puning at 102.55 km with 874,954 recorded people; Sha Tin at 127.479 km with 495,200 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 25.23 km. Compared with Huizhou, Shanwei's recorded population is 0.17 times as large. Against Shanwei, Huizhou follows Huizhou Shi → Guangdong → 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 above Shanwei's. Against Shanwei, Puning follows Jieyang Shi → Guangdong → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shanwei's. Against Shanwei, Sha Tin follows Sha Tin → Hong Kong in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Hong Kong cohort rather than China, uses Asia/Hong_Kong instead of Asia/Shanghai, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shanwei's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 706 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shanwei'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 1795928, the coordinate pair 22.7820 / 115.3475, country rank 294 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1806776 at 102.249 km bind Shanwei to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shanwei's reference point is 22.7820° north and 115.3475° 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. Shanwei's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shanwei's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shanwei's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shanwei, 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
Shanwei's closest other entries in this atlas are Huizhou (102.249 km), Puning (102.55 km), Sha Tin (127.479 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.