1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Xi'an, 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 Xi'an—9,600,000, 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 of Shaanxi Province, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Xi'an is GeoNames ID 1790630. Its recorded administrative path is Xi'an Shi → Shaanxi → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Xi’an 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, Xi'an ranks 24 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 9; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 17. Its 9,600,000 population value is 8.24 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 9.52 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Xi'an falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Xi'an'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.
Xi'an's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Xianyang at 22.562 km with 1,034,081 recorded people; Weinan at 59.828 km with 1,199,290 recorded people; Shangluo at 102.055 km with 531,696 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 79.493 km. Compared with Xianyang, Xi'an's recorded population is 9.28 times as large. Against Xi'an, Xianyang follows Xianyang Shi → Shaanxi → 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Xi'an's. Against Xi'an, Weinan follows Weinan Shi → Shaanxi → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Xi'an's. Against Xi'an, Shangluo follows Shangluo Shi → Shaanxi → 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 Xi'an's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 282 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Xi'an's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1790630, the coordinate pair 34.2583 / 108.9286, country rank 9 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1790353 at 22.562 km bind Xi'an to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Xi'an's reference point is 34.2583° north and 108.9286° 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. Xi'an's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Xi'an's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Xi'an's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Xi'an, 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
Xi'an's closest other entries in this atlas are Xianyang (22.562 km), Weinan (59.828 km), Shangluo (102.055 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.