1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Xinzhou, 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 Xinzhou—544,683, 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 Shanxi, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Xinzhou is GeoNames ID 1788450. Its recorded administrative path is Xinzhou Shi → Shanxi → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Xinzhou 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 2024-07-13; 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, Xinzhou ranks 1,029 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 271; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 547. Its 544,683 population value is 0.47 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.54 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Xinzhou sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Xinzhou'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.
Xinzhou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Taiyuan at 61.894 km with 4,303,673 recorded people; Jinzhong at 80.654 km with 1,226,617 recorded people; Yangquan at 95.041 km with 731,228 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 33.147 km. Compared with Taiyuan, Xinzhou's recorded population is 0.13 times as large. Against Xinzhou, Taiyuan follows Taiyuan Shi → Shanxi → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Xinzhou's. Against Xinzhou, Jinzhong follows Jinzhong Shi → Shanxi → 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 Xinzhou's. Against Xinzhou, Yangquan follows Yangquan Shi → Shanxi → 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 Xinzhou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 515 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Xinzhou's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1788450, the coordinate pair 38.4092 / 112.7333, country rank 271 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1793511 at 61.894 km bind Xinzhou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Xinzhou's reference point is 38.4092° north and 112.7333° 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. Xinzhou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Xinzhou's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Xinzhou's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Xinzhou, 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
Xinzhou's closest other entries in this atlas are Taiyuan (61.894 km), Jinzhong (80.654 km), Yangquan (95.041 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-13; 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.