1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Taiyuan, 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 Taiyuan—4,303,673, 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: capital city of Shanxi province, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Taiyuan is GeoNames ID 1793511. Its recorded administrative path is Taiyuan Shi → Shanxi → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Taiyuan 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, Taiyuan ranks 77 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 27; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 50. Its 4,303,673 population value is 3.69 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 4.27 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Taiyuan falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Taiyuan'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.
Taiyuan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jinzhong at 26.778 km with 1,226,617 recorded people; Xinzhou at 61.894 km with 544,683 recorded people; Yangquan at 88.063 km with 731,228 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 61.285 km. Compared with Jinzhong, Taiyuan's recorded population is 3.51 times as large. Against Taiyuan, Jinzhong follows Jinzhong Shi → Shanxi → 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 Taiyuan's. Against Taiyuan, Xinzhou follows Xinzhou Shi → Shanxi → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Taiyuan's. Against Taiyuan, Yangquan follows Yangquan Shi → Shanxi → 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 Taiyuan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 305 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Taiyuan'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 1793511, the coordinate pair 37.8694 / 112.5603, country rank 27 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 10942283 at 26.778 km bind Taiyuan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Taiyuan's reference point is 37.8694° north and 112.5603° 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. Taiyuan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Taiyuan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Taiyuan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Taiyuan, 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
Taiyuan's closest other entries in this atlas are Jinzhong (26.778 km), Xinzhou (61.894 km), Yangquan (88.063 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.