1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
South Korea
Compare this sourced profile of Suwon, South Korea 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 Suwon—1,234,582, Asia/Seoul, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Suwon is GeoNames ID 1835553. Its recorded administrative path is Suwon-si → Gyeonggi-do → South Korea, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Suwon 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 2026-04-30; 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, Suwon ranks 423 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected South Korea entries it ranks 7; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 248. Its 1,234,582 population value is 1.40 times the 883,490 median for the country cohort and 1.22 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Suwon sits in the second quarter of this atlas's South Korea population cohort. Suwon's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Suwon's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Anyang-si at 13.401 km with 595,644 recorded people; Ansan-si at 16.925 km with 623,256 recorded people; Hwaseong-si at 19.407 km with 640,890 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 6.006 km. Compared with Anyang-si, Suwon's recorded population is 2.07 times as large. Against Suwon, Anyang-si follows Anyang-si → Gyeonggi-do → South Korea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Suwon's. Against Suwon, Ansan-si follows Ansan-si → Gyeonggi-do → South Korea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Suwon's. Against Suwon, Hwaseong-si follows Hwaseong-si → Gyeonggi-do → South Korea in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Suwon's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 193 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Suwon'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 1835553, the coordinate pair 37.2911 / 127.0089, country rank 7 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1846898 at 13.401 km bind Suwon to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Suwon's reference point is 37.2911° north and 127.0089° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Seoul is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Suwon's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Suwon's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Suwon's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Suwon, 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
Suwon's closest other entries in this atlas are Anyang-si (13.401 km), Ansan-si (16.925 km), Hwaseong-si (19.407 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-30; 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.