1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Shihezi, 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 Shihezi—572,772, Asia/Urumqi, 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 Shihezi is GeoNames ID 1529195. Its recorded administrative path is Shihezi → Xinjiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Shihezi 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 2021-09-20; 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, Shihezi ranks 975 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 262; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 525. Its 572,772 population value is 0.49 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.57 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shihezi sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Shihezi'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.
Shihezi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ürümqi at 136.821 km with 3,029,372 recorded people; Korla at 282.785 km with 549,324 recorded people; Aqsu at 583.96 km with 535,657 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 447.139 km. Compared with Ürümqi, Shihezi's recorded population is 0.19 times as large. Against Shihezi, Ürümqi follows Urumqi Shi → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Urumqi identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shihezi's. Against Shihezi, Korla follows Bayinguoleng Menggu Zizhizhou → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Urumqi identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Shihezi's. Against Shihezi, Aqsu follows Aksu Diqu → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Urumqi identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Shihezi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 841 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shihezi'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 1529195, the coordinate pair 44.3023 / 86.0369, country rank 262 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1529102 at 136.821 km bind Shihezi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shihezi's reference point is 44.3023° north and 86.0369° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Urumqi is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Shihezi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shihezi's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shihezi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shihezi, 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
Shihezi's closest other entries in this atlas are Ürümqi (136.821 km), Korla (282.785 km), Aqsu (583.96 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-09-20; 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.