1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Xiangtan, 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 Xiangtan—959,303, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Xiangtan is GeoNames ID 1790492. Its recorded administrative path is Xiangtan Shi → Hunan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Xiangtan 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 2021-10-20; 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, Xiangtan ranks 580 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 184; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 337. Its 959,303 population value is 0.82 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.95 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Xiangtan sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Xiangtan's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Xiangtan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zhuzhou at 24.651 km with 1,129,687 recorded people; Changsha (Hunan) at 39.397 km with 3,093,980 recorded people; Guankou at 79.202 km with 1,380,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 54.551 km. Compared with Zhuzhou, Xiangtan's recorded population is 0.85 times as large. Against Xiangtan, Zhuzhou follows Zhuzhou Shi → Hunan → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Xiangtan's. Against Xiangtan, Changsha (Hunan) follows Changsha Shi → Hunan → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Xiangtan's. Against Xiangtan, Guankou follows Changsha Shi → Hunan → 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 above Xiangtan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 294 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Xiangtan'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 1790492, the coordinate pair 27.8500 / 112.9000, country rank 184 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1783763 at 24.651 km bind Xiangtan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Xiangtan's reference point is 27.8500° north and 112.9000° 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. Xiangtan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Xiangtan's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Xiangtan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Xiangtan, 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
Xiangtan's closest other entries in this atlas are Zhuzhou (24.651 km), Changsha (Hunan) (39.397 km), Guankou (79.202 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-10-20; 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.