1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Xianyang, 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 Xianyang—1,034,081, 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 Shaanxi, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Xianyang is GeoNames ID 1790353. Its recorded administrative path is Xianyang Shi → Shaanxi → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Xianyang 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 2021-09-20; 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, Xianyang ranks 519 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 165; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 303. Its 1,034,081 population value is 0.89 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.03 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Xianyang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Xianyang'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.
Xianyang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Xi'an at 22.562 km with 9,600,000 recorded people; Weinan at 76.221 km with 1,199,290 recorded people; Shangluo at 124.607 km with 531,696 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 102.045 km. Compared with Xi'an, Xianyang's recorded population is 0.11 times as large. Against Xianyang, Xi'an follows Xi'an 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 first-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Xianyang's. Against Xianyang, 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Xianyang's. Against Xianyang, 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 third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Xianyang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 282 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Xianyang'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 1790353, the coordinate pair 34.3378 / 108.7026, country rank 165 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1790630 at 22.562 km bind Xianyang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Xianyang's reference point is 34.3378° north and 108.7026° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Xianyang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Xianyang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Xianyang's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Xianyang, 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
Xianyang's closest other entries in this atlas are Xi'an (22.562 km), Weinan (76.221 km), Shangluo (124.607 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-09-20; 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.