1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Tianshui—1,212,791, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tianshui is GeoNames ID 1792892. Its recorded administrative path is Tianshui Shi → Gansu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Tianshui 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 2025-08-18; 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, Tianshui ranks 433 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 143; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 256. Its 1,212,791 population value is 1.04 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.20 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Tianshui sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Tianshui's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Tianshui's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Pingliang at 136.984 km with 504,848 recorded people; Baoji at 139.02 km with 1,437,802 recorded people; Hanzhong at 204.835 km with 1,006,557 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 67.851 km. Compared with Pingliang, Tianshui's recorded population is 2.40 times as large. Against Tianshui, Pingliang follows Pingliang Shi → Gansu → 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Tianshui's. Against Tianshui, Baoji follows Baoji Shi → Shaanxi → 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Tianshui's. Against Tianshui, Hanzhong follows Hanzhong Shi → Shaanxi → 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Tianshui's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 843 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tianshui'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 1792892, the coordinate pair 34.5795 / 105.7424, country rank 143 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1798760 at 136.984 km bind Tianshui to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tianshui's reference point is 34.5795° north and 105.7424° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Tianshui's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Tianshui's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tianshui's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tianshui, 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
Tianshui's closest other entries in this atlas are Pingliang (136.984 km), Baoji (139.02 km), Hanzhong (204.835 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-18; 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.