1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Vietnam
Compare this sourced profile of Thanh Hóa, Vietnam 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 Thanh Hóa—850,000, Asia/Bangkok, 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 Thanh Hóa province.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Thanh Hóa is GeoNames ID 1566166. Its recorded administrative path is Thanh Pho Thanh Hoa → Thanh Hoa Province → Vietnam, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Thanh Hóa 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 2026-04-14; 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, Thanh Hóa ranks 656 by recorded population. Inside the 13 selected Vietnam entries it ranks 8; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 381. Its 850,000 population value is 0.67 times the 1,272,235 median for the country cohort and 0.84 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Thanh Hóa sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Vietnam entries. Thanh Hóa'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.
Thanh Hóa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Vinh at 125.518 km with 790,000 recorded people; Hanoi at 136.379 km with 8,053,663 recorded people; Haiphong at 152.171 km with 2,625,200 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 26.653 km. Compared with Vinh, Thanh Hóa's recorded population is 1.08 times as large. Against Thanh Hóa, Vinh follows Thanh Pho Vinh → Nghe An Province → Vietnam in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses the shared Asia/Bangkok identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Thanh Hóa's. Against Thanh Hóa, Hanoi follows Hanoi → Vietnam in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses the shared Asia/Bangkok identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Thanh Hóa's. Against Thanh Hóa, Haiphong follows Hai Phong → Vietnam in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses the shared Asia/Bangkok identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Thanh Hóa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 799 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Thanh Hóa'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 1566166, the coordinate pair 19.8000 / 105.7667, country rank 8 of 13, and neighbor GeoNames 1562798 at 125.518 km bind Thanh Hóa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Thanh Hóa's reference point is 19.8000° north and 105.7667° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Bangkok is shared by 7 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Thanh Hóa's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Thanh Hóa's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Thanh Hóa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Thanh Hóa, 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
Thanh Hóa's closest other entries in this atlas are Vinh (125.518 km), Hanoi (136.379 km), Haiphong (152.171 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.