1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Xuchang, 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 Xuchang—1,265,536, 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 Henan, People's Republic of China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Xuchang is GeoNames ID 1788046. Its recorded administrative path is Xuchang Shi → Henan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Xuchang 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 2025-08-19; 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, Xuchang ranks 404 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 132; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 238. Its 1,265,536 population value is 1.09 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.25 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Xuchang sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Xuchang'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.
Xuchang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Luohe at 53.247 km with 1,294,974 recorded people; Pingdingshan at 60.614 km with 979,130 recorded people; Zhengzhou at 83.077 km with 4,253,913 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 29.83 km. Compared with Luohe, Xuchang's recorded population is 0.98 times as large. Against Xuchang, Luohe follows Luohe Shi → Henan → 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 Xuchang's. Against Xuchang, Pingdingshan follows Pingdingshan Shi → Henan → 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 below Xuchang's. Against Xuchang, Zhengzhou follows Zhengzhou Shi → Henan → China in the source. Its point has higher 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 Xuchang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 466 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Xuchang'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 1788046, the coordinate pair 34.0319 / 113.8630, country rank 132 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1801934 at 53.247 km bind Xuchang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Xuchang's reference point is 34.0319° north and 113.8630° 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. Xuchang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Xuchang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Xuchang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Xuchang, 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
Xuchang's closest other entries in this atlas are Luohe (53.247 km), Pingdingshan (60.614 km), Zhengzhou (83.077 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-19; 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.