1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Shizuishan, 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 Shizuishan—739,400, 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 Shizuishan is GeoNames ID 12324556. Its recorded administrative path is Shizuishan Shi → Ningxia → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Shizuishan 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 2025-08-18; 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, Shizuishan ranks 746 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 223; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 423. Its 739,400 population value is 0.63 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.73 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shizuishan sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Shizuishan'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.
Shizuishan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Yinchuan at 57.9 km with 1,487,579 recorded people; Wuzhong at 111.748 km with 7,202,654 recorded people; Zhongwei at 194.046 km with 1,174,600 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 136.146 km. Compared with Yinchuan, Shizuishan's recorded population is 0.50 times as large. Against Shizuishan, Yinchuan follows Yinchuan Shi → Ningxia → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shizuishan's. Against Shizuishan, Wuzhong follows Wuzhong Shi → Ningxia → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Shizuishan's. Against Shizuishan, Zhongwei follows Zhongwei Shi → Ningxia → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Shizuishan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 490 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shizuishan'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 12324556, the coordinate pair 38.9808 / 106.3892, country rank 223 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1786657 at 57.9 km bind Shizuishan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shizuishan's reference point is 38.9808° north and 106.3892° 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. Shizuishan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shizuishan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shizuishan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shizuishan, 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
Shizuishan's closest other entries in this atlas are Yinchuan (57.9 km), Wuzhong (111.748 km), Zhongwei (194.046 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Shizuishan, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-18; 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.