1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Shenyang, 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 Shenyang—7,050,000, 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 and sub-provincial city in Liaoning, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Shenyang is GeoNames ID 2034937. Its recorded administrative path is Shenyang Shi → Liaoning → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Shenyang 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 2026-04-13; 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, Shenyang ranks 43 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 16; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 29. Its 7,050,000 population value is 6.05 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 6.99 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shenyang falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Shenyang's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Shenyang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Fushun at 43.604 km with 1,400,646 recorded people; Liaoyang at 61.76 km with 687,890 recorded people; Benxi at 62.453 km with 987,717 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 18.849 km. Compared with Fushun, Shenyang's recorded population is 5.03 times as large. Against Shenyang, Fushun follows Fushun Shi → Liaoning → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Shenyang's. Against Shenyang, Liaoyang follows Liaoyang Shi → Liaoning → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Shenyang's. Against Shenyang, Benxi follows Benxi Shi → Liaoning → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Shenyang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 386 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shenyang'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 2034937, the coordinate pair 41.7922 / 123.4328, country rank 16 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 2037355 at 43.604 km bind Shenyang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shenyang's reference point is 41.7922° north and 123.4328° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Shenyang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shenyang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shenyang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shenyang, 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
Shenyang's closest other entries in this atlas are Fushun (43.604 km), Liaoyang (61.76 km), Benxi (62.453 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.