1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Xichang, 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 Xichang—481,796, 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 Xichang is GeoNames ID 1789647. Its recorded administrative path is Liangshan Yizu Zizhizhou → Sichuan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Xichang 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 2025-08-15; 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, Xichang ranks 1,193 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 296; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 629. Its 481,796 population value is 0.41 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.48 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Xichang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Xichang's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Xichang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Panzhihua at 155.643 km with 787,177 recorded people; Zhaotong at 157.038 km with 787,845 recorded people; Leshan at 236.037 km with 662,814 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 80.394 km. Compared with Panzhihua, Xichang's recorded population is 0.61 times as large. Against Xichang, Panzhihua follows Panzhihua Shi → Sichuan → China in the source. Its point has lower 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 above Xichang's. Against Xichang, Zhaotong follows Zhaotong Shi → Yunnan → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Xichang's. Against Xichang, Leshan follows Leshan Shi → Sichuan → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Xichang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 890 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Xichang'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 1789647, the coordinate pair 27.8964 / 102.2634, country rank 296 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 6929460 at 155.643 km bind Xichang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Xichang's reference point is 27.8964° north and 102.2634° 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. Xichang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Xichang's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Xichang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Xichang, 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
Xichang's closest other entries in this atlas are Panzhihua (155.643 km), Zhaotong (157.038 km), Leshan (236.037 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-15; 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.