Suqian

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Suqian is GeoNames ID 1793771. Its recorded administrative path is Suqian Shi → Jiangsu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat.

Suqian 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 2025-08-20; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Suqian ranks 342 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 111; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 199.

Its 1,437,685 population value is 1.23 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.43 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Suqian sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort.

Suqian's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.

Nearest-reference pattern

Suqian's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Huai'an at 77.961 km with 2,494,013 recorded people; Xuzhou at 97.429 km with 1,253,991 recorded people; Lianyungang at 111.149 km with 2,001,009 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 33.188 km. Compared with Huai'an, Suqian's recorded population is 0.58 times as large. Against Suqian, Huai'an follows Huai'an Shi → Jiangsu → 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 second-order administrative seat.

Its recorded population is above Suqian's. Against Suqian, Xuzhou follows Xuzhou → Jiangsu → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Suqian's. Against Suqian, Lianyungang follows Lianyungang Shi → Jiangsu → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Suqian's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 606 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Suqian'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 1793771, the coordinate pair 33.9492 / 118.2958, country rank 111 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1797873 at 77.961 km bind Suqian to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Suqian's reference point is 33.9492° north and 118.2958° 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. Suqian's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.

Suqian's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Suqian's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Suqian, 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.