1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Wuhan, 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 Wuhan—10,392,693, 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: capital city of Hubei Province, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Wuhan is GeoNames ID 1791247. Its recorded administrative path is Wuhan Shi → Hubei → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Wuhan 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, Wuhan ranks 17 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 7; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 12. Its 10,392,693 population value is 8.92 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 10.31 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Wuhan falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Wuhan'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.
Wuhan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Xiaogan at 50.426 km with 908,266 recorded people; E’zhou at 62.94 km with 668,727 recorded people; Xianning at 82.44 km with 512,517 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 32.014 km. Compared with Xiaogan, Wuhan's recorded population is 11.44 times as large. Against Wuhan, Xiaogan follows Xiaogan → Hubei → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Shanghai identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Wuhan's. Against Wuhan, E’zhou follows Huanggang Shi → Hubei → 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Wuhan's. Against Wuhan, Xianning follows Xianning Prefecture → Hubei → 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Wuhan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 442 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Wuhan'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 1791247, the coordinate pair 30.5833 / 114.2667, country rank 7 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1790254 at 50.426 km bind Wuhan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Wuhan's reference point is 30.5833° north and 114.2667° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Wuhan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Wuhan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Wuhan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Wuhan, 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
Wuhan's closest other entries in this atlas are Xiaogan (50.426 km), E’zhou (62.94 km), Xianning (82.44 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.