1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Wuxi, 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 Wuxi—4,396,835, 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 Jiangsu, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Wuxi is GeoNames ID 1790923. Its recorded administrative path is Wuxi Shi → Jiangsu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Wuxi 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 2025-02-26; 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, Wuxi ranks 74 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 25; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 48. Its 4,396,835 population value is 3.77 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 4.36 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Wuxi falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Wuxi'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.
Wuxi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jiangyin at 38.122 km with 1,779,515 recorded people; Changzhou at 38.995 km with 3,290,918 recorded people; Zhangjiagang at 40.557 km with 1,432,044 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 2.435 km. Compared with Jiangyin, Wuxi's recorded population is 2.47 times as large. Against Wuxi, Jiangyin follows Wuxi Shi → Jiangsu → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Wuxi's. Against Wuxi, Changzhou follows Changzhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Wuxi's. Against Wuxi, Zhangjiagang follows Suzhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Wuxi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 353 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Wuxi'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 1790923, the coordinate pair 31.5689 / 120.2886, country rank 25 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1815251 at 38.122 km bind Wuxi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Wuxi's reference point is 31.5689° north and 120.2886° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Wuxi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Wuxi's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Wuxi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Wuxi, 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
Wuxi's closest other entries in this atlas are Jiangyin (38.122 km), Changzhou (38.995 km), Zhangjiagang (40.557 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-26; 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.