1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Vietnam
Compare this sourced profile of Vinh, 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 Vinh—790,000, 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: provincial city in Vietnam.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Vinh is GeoNames ID 1562798. Its recorded administrative path is Thanh Pho Vinh → Nghe An Province → Vietnam, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Vinh 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, Vinh ranks 703 by recorded population. Inside the 13 selected Vietnam entries it ranks 9; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 400. Its 790,000 population value is 0.62 times the 1,272,235 median for the country cohort and 0.78 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Vinh sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Vietnam entries. Vinh'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.
Vinh's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Thanh Hóa at 125.518 km with 850,000 recorded people; Hanoi at 261.897 km with 8,053,663 recorded people; Haiphong at 264.827 km with 2,625,200 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 139.309 km. Compared with Thanh Hóa, Vinh's recorded population is 0.93 times as large. Against Vinh, Thanh Hóa follows Thanh Pho Thanh Hoa → Thanh Hoa Province → 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 Vinh's. Against Vinh, 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 Vinh's. Against Vinh, 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 Vinh's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 799 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Vinh'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 1562798, the coordinate pair 18.6734 / 105.6923, country rank 9 of 13, and neighbor GeoNames 1566166 at 125.518 km bind Vinh to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Vinh's reference point is 18.6734° north and 105.6923° 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. Vinh's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Vinh's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Vinh's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Vinh, 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
Vinh's closest other entries in this atlas are Thanh Hóa (125.518 km), Hanoi (261.897 km), Haiphong (264.827 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 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.