1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Xiamen, 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 Xiamen—4,617,251, 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 Fujian, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Xiamen is GeoNames ID 1790645. Its recorded administrative path is Fujian → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Xiamen 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 2024-09-05; 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, Xiamen ranks 68 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 23; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 43. Its 4,617,251 population value is 3.96 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 4.58 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Xiamen falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Xiamen'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.
Xiamen's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zhangzhou at 43.297 km with 589,831 recorded people; Jinjiang at 62.485 km with 1,416,151 recorded people; Quanzhou at 70.157 km with 1,469,157 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 26.86 km. Compared with Zhangzhou, Xiamen's recorded population is 7.83 times as large. Against Xiamen, Zhangzhou follows Zhangzhou Shi → Fujian → 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 Xiamen's. Against Xiamen, Jinjiang follows Quanzhou Shi → Fujian → 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 Xiamen's. Against Xiamen, Quanzhou follows Quanzhou Shi → Fujian → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Xiamen's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 384 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Xiamen'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 1790645, the coordinate pair 24.4798 / 118.0819, country rank 23 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1785018 at 43.297 km bind Xiamen to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Xiamen's reference point is 24.4798° north and 118.0819° 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. Xiamen's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Xiamen's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Xiamen's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Xiamen, 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
Xiamen's closest other entries in this atlas are Zhangzhou (43.297 km), Jinjiang (62.485 km), Quanzhou (70.157 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-09-05; 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.