1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Shijiazhuang, 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 Shijiazhuang—3,938,513, 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 Shijiazhuang is GeoNames ID 1795270. Its recorded administrative path is Shijiazhuang Shi → Hebei → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Shijiazhuang 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, Shijiazhuang ranks 82 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 29; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 53. Its 3,938,513 population value is 3.38 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 3.91 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shijiazhuang falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Shijiazhuang'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.
Shijiazhuang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Luancheng at 22.811 km with 597,130 recorded people; Yangquan at 82.818 km with 731,228 recorded people; Xingtai at 108.891 km with 798,770 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 86.08 km. Compared with Luancheng, Shijiazhuang's recorded population is 6.60 times as large. Against Shijiazhuang, Luancheng follows Shijiazhuang Shi → Hebei → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Shijiazhuang's. Against Shijiazhuang, Yangquan follows Yangquan Shi → Shanxi → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Shijiazhuang's. Against Shijiazhuang, Xingtai follows Xingtai County → Hebei → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Shijiazhuang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 286 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shijiazhuang'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 1795270, the coordinate pair 38.0414 / 114.4786, country rank 29 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1802204 at 22.811 km bind Shijiazhuang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shijiazhuang's reference point is 38.0414° north and 114.4786° 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. Shijiazhuang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shijiazhuang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shijiazhuang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shijiazhuang, 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
Shijiazhuang's closest other entries in this atlas are Luancheng (22.811 km), Yangquan (82.818 km), Xingtai (108.891 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.