1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Xiangyang, 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 Xiangyang—1,294,733, 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 Hubei, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Xiangyang is GeoNames ID 1790587. Its recorded administrative path is Xiangyang → Hubei → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Xiangyang 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 2026-01-19; 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, Xiangyang ranks 393 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 128; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 230. Its 1,294,733 population value is 1.11 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.28 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Xiangyang sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Xiangyang'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.
Xiangyang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jingmen at 112.294 km with 632,954 recorded people; Nanyang at 113.518 km with 1,811,812 recorded people; Suizhou at 120.782 km with 618,582 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 8.488 km. Compared with Jingmen, Xiangyang's recorded population is 2.05 times as large. Against Xiangyang, Jingmen follows Jingmen 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Xiangyang's. Against Xiangyang, Nanyang follows Nanyang Shi → Henan → 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 above Xiangyang's. Against Xiangyang, Suizhou follows Suizhou 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Xiangyang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 742 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Xiangyang's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half 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 1790587, the coordinate pair 32.0422 / 112.1448, country rank 128 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1805611 at 112.294 km bind Xiangyang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Xiangyang's reference point is 32.0422° north and 112.1448° 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. Xiangyang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Xiangyang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Xiangyang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Xiangyang, 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
Xiangyang's closest other entries in this atlas are Jingmen (112.294 km), Nanyang (113.518 km), Suizhou (120.782 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-19; 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.