1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Weifang, 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 Weifang—2,044,028, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: prefecture-level city in Shandong, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Weifang is GeoNames ID 1791681. Its recorded administrative path is Weifang Shi → Shandong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Weifang 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 2025-11-15; 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, Weifang ranks 197 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 65; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 118. Its 2,044,028 population value is 1.75 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 2.03 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Weifang falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Weifang's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Weifang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Pingdu at 75.693 km with 542,234 recorded people; Zhucheng at 83.824 km with 499,285 recorded people; Zhu Cheng City at 83.937 km with 1,000,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 8.244 km. Compared with Pingdu, Weifang's recorded population is 3.77 times as large. Against Weifang, Pingdu follows Qingdao Shi → Shandong → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Weifang's. Against Weifang, Zhucheng follows Weifang Shi → Shandong → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Weifang's. Against Weifang, Zhu Cheng City follows Weifang Shi → Shandong → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Weifang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 589 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Weifang's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1791681, the coordinate pair 36.7100 / 119.1019, country rank 65 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1798821 at 75.693 km bind Weifang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Weifang's reference point is 36.7100° north and 119.1019° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Weifang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Weifang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Weifang's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Weifang, 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
Weifang's closest other entries in this atlas are Pingdu (75.693 km), Zhucheng (83.824 km), Zhu Cheng City (83.937 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-11-15; 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.