1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Vietnam
Compare this sourced profile of Thủ Đức, 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 Thủ Đức—524,670, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Thủ Đức is GeoNames ID 1565019. Its recorded administrative path is Quan Thu GJuc → Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) → Vietnam, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Thủ Đức 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 2025-07-29; 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, Thủ Đức ranks 1,079 by recorded population. Inside the 13 selected Vietnam entries it ranks 12; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 569. Its 524,670 population value is 0.41 times the 1,272,235 median for the country cohort and 0.52 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Thủ Đức sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Vietnam entries. Thủ Đức'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.
Thủ Đức's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Thuận An at 10.483 km with 588,616 recorded people; Biên Hòa at 12.109 km with 1,272,235 recorded people; Ho Chi Minh City at 15.815 km with 14,002,598 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 5.332 km. Compared with Thuận An, Thủ Đức's recorded population is 0.89 times as large. Against Thủ Đức, Thuận An follows Thanh Pho Thuan An → Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) → Vietnam in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses the shared Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Thủ Đức's. Against Thủ Đức, Biên Hòa follows Thanh Pho Bien Hoa → Dong Nai → Vietnam in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses the shared Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Thủ Đức's. Against Thủ Đức, Ho Chi Minh City follows Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) → Vietnam in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Vietnam cohort, uses the shared Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Thủ Đức's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 156 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Thủ Đức'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 1565019, the coordinate pair 10.8486 / 106.7721, country rank 12 of 13, and neighbor GeoNames 12382296 at 10.483 km bind Thủ Đức to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Thủ Đức's reference point is 10.8486° north and 106.7721° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Thủ Đức's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Thủ Đức's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Thủ Đức's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Thủ Đức, 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
Thủ Đức's closest other entries in this atlas are Thuận An (10.483 km), Biên Hòa (12.109 km), Ho Chi Minh City (15.815 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 2025-07-29; 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.