1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Ürümqi, 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 Ürümqi—3,029,372, Asia/Urumqi, 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 of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ürümqi is GeoNames ID 1529102. Its recorded administrative path is Urumqi Shi → Xinjiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Ürümqi 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, Ürümqi ranks 116 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 44; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 77. Its 3,029,372 population value is 2.60 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 3.00 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Ürümqi falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Ürümqi'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.
Ürümqi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Shihezi at 136.821 km with 572,772 recorded people; Korla at 255.81 km with 549,324 recorded people; Aqsu at 666.75 km with 535,657 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 529.929 km. Compared with Shihezi, Ürümqi's recorded population is 5.29 times as large. Against Ürümqi, Shihezi follows Shihezi → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Urumqi identifier, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ürümqi's. Against Ürümqi, Korla follows Bayinguoleng Menggu Zizhizhou → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Urumqi identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ürümqi's. Against Ürümqi, Aqsu follows Aksu Diqu → Xinjiang → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Urumqi identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ürümqi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 841 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ürümqi'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 1529102, the coordinate pair 43.8010 / 87.6005, country rank 44 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1529195 at 136.821 km bind Ürümqi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ürümqi's reference point is 43.8010° north and 87.6005° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Urumqi is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Ürümqi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ürümqi's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ürümqi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ürümqi, 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
Ürümqi's closest other entries in this atlas are Shihezi (136.821 km), Korla (255.81 km), Aqsu (666.75 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.