1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Shaoxing, 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 Shaoxing—2,300,000, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Shaoxing is GeoNames ID 1795855. Its recorded administrative path is Shaoxing Shi → Zhejiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Shaoxing 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 2025-10-18; 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, Shaoxing ranks 172 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 57; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 107. Its 2,300,000 population value is 1.97 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 2.28 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shaoxing falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Shaoxing'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.
Shaoxing's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Shangyu at 28.2 km with 770,000 recorded people; Hangzhou at 51.56 km with 9,236,032 recorded people; Cixi at 67.032 km with 1,457,510 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 38.832 km. Compared with Shangyu, Shaoxing's recorded population is 2.99 times as large. Against Shaoxing, Shangyu follows Shaoxing 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 populated place rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Shaoxing's. Against Shaoxing, Hangzhou follows Hangzhou Shi → Zhejiang → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shaoxing's. Against Shaoxing, 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 the same third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Shaoxing's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 312 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shaoxing'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 1795855, the coordinate pair 30.0024 / 120.5786, country rank 57 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1817720 at 28.2 km bind Shaoxing to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shaoxing's reference point is 30.0024° north and 120.5786° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Shaoxing's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shaoxing's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shaoxing's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shaoxing, 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
Shaoxing's closest other entries in this atlas are Shangyu (28.2 km), Hangzhou (51.56 km), Cixi (67.032 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-10-18; 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.