1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Shenzhen, 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 Shenzhen—17,494,398, 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 Shenzhen is GeoNames ID 1795565. Its recorded administrative path is Shenzhen → Guangdong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Shenzhen 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 2025-10-22; 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, Shenzhen ranks 3 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 3; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 3. Its 17,494,398 population value is 15.01 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 17.35 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shenzhen falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Shenzhen'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.
Shenzhen's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bao'an at 19.056 km with 4,476,554 recorded people; Tuen Mun at 19.779 km with 507,900 recorded people; Sha Tin at 21.565 km with 495,200 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 2.509 km. Compared with Bao'an, Shenzhen's recorded population is 3.91 times as large. Against Shenzhen, Bao'an follows 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Shenzhen's. Against Shenzhen, Tuen Mun follows Tuen Mun → 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 below Shenzhen's. Against Shenzhen, Sha Tin follows Sha Tin → Hong Kong in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher 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 below Shenzhen's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 256 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shenzhen's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1795565, the coordinate pair 22.5455 / 114.0683, country rank 3 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 13308620 at 19.056 km bind Shenzhen to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shenzhen's reference point is 22.5455° north and 114.0683° 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. Shenzhen's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shenzhen's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shenzhen's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shenzhen, 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
Shenzhen's closest other entries in this atlas are Bao'an (19.056 km), Tuen Mun (19.779 km), Sha Tin (21.565 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-10-22; 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.