1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Suzhou (Jiangsu), 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 Suzhou (Jiangsu)—6,715,559, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, China, former capital of the kingdom of Wu.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Suzhou (Jiangsu) is GeoNames ID 1886760. Its recorded administrative path is Suzhou Shi → Jiangsu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Suzhou appears on 2 separate GeoNames rows in this atlas, so the qualifier “Jiangsu” and numeric ID prevent those places from being merged. The city row itself was updated 2024-03-26; 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, Suzhou (Jiangsu) ranks 46 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 17; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 31. Its 6,715,559 population value is 5.76 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 6.66 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Suzhou (Jiangsu) falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Suzhou (Jiangsu)'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.
Suzhou (Jiangsu)'s three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kunshan at 35.055 km with 2,092,496 recorded people; Changshu at 40.505 km with 1,677,050 recorded people; Wuxi at 41.403 km with 4,396,835 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 6.348 km. Compared with Kunshan, Suzhou (Jiangsu)'s recorded population is 3.21 times as large. Against Suzhou (Jiangsu), Kunshan follows Suzhou 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Suzhou (Jiangsu)'s. Against Suzhou (Jiangsu), Changshu follows Suzhou 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Suzhou (Jiangsu)'s. Against Suzhou (Jiangsu), Wuxi follows Wuxi Shi → 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 Suzhou (Jiangsu)'s. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 344 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Suzhou (Jiangsu)'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 1886760, the coordinate pair 31.3041 / 120.5954, country rank 17 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1785623 at 35.055 km bind Suzhou (Jiangsu) to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Suzhou (Jiangsu)'s reference point is 31.3041° north and 120.5954° 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. Suzhou (Jiangsu)'s row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Suzhou (Jiangsu)'s point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Suzhou (Jiangsu)'s time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Suzhou (Jiangsu), 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
Suzhou (Jiangsu)'s closest other entries in this atlas are Kunshan (35.055 km), Changshu (40.505 km), Wuxi (41.403 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2024-03-26; 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.