1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Xuzhou, 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 Xuzhou—1,253,991, 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 Xuzhou is GeoNames ID 10630003. Its recorded administrative path is Xuzhou → Jiangsu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Xuzhou 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 2025-05-08; 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, Xuzhou ranks 410 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 134; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 242. Its 1,253,991 population value is 1.08 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.24 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Xuzhou sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Xuzhou'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.
Xuzhou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Huaibei at 52.041 km with 1,113,321 recorded people; Suzhou (Anhui) at 69.175 km with 1,647,642 recorded people; Zaozhuang at 77.485 km with 899,753 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 25.444 km. Compared with Huaibei, Xuzhou's recorded population is 1.13 times as large. Against Xuzhou, Huaibei follows Huaibei Shi → Anhui → 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 Xuzhou's. Against Xuzhou, Suzhou (Anhui) follows Suzhou Shi → Anhui → 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 Xuzhou's. Against Xuzhou, Zaozhuang follows Zaozhuang Shi → Shandong → 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 below Xuzhou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 451 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Xuzhou'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 10630003, the coordinate pair 34.2044 / 117.2839, country rank 134 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1807700 at 52.041 km bind Xuzhou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Xuzhou's reference point is 34.2044° north and 117.2839° 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. Xuzhou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Xuzhou's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Xuzhou's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Xuzhou, 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
Xuzhou's closest other entries in this atlas are Huaibei (52.041 km), Suzhou (Anhui) (69.175 km), Zaozhuang (77.485 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-08; 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.