1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Yancheng, 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 Yancheng—1,615,717, 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 Yancheng is GeoNames ID 1787746. Its recorded administrative path is Yancheng Shi → Jiangsu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Yancheng 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 2024-05-17; 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, Yancheng ranks 279 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 90; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 162. Its 1,615,717 population value is 1.39 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.60 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Yancheng sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Yancheng's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Yancheng's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Taizhou (Jiangsu) at 99.151 km with 1,607,108 recorded people; Huai'an at 108.647 km with 2,494,013 recorded people; Yangzhou at 126.256 km with 1,584,237 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 27.105 km. Compared with Taizhou (Jiangsu), Yancheng's recorded population is 1.01 times as large. Against Yancheng, Taizhou (Jiangsu) follows Taizhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Yancheng's. Against Yancheng, Huai'an follows Huai'an Shi → Jiangsu → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Yancheng's. Against Yancheng, Yangzhou follows Yangzhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Yancheng's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 694 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Yancheng'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 1787746, the coordinate pair 33.3575 / 120.1573, country rank 90 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1793505 at 99.151 km bind Yancheng to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Yancheng's reference point is 33.3575° north and 120.1573° 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. Yancheng's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Yancheng's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Yancheng's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Yancheng, 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
Yancheng's closest other entries in this atlas are Taizhou (Jiangsu) (99.151 km), Huai'an (108.647 km), Yangzhou (126.256 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-05-17; 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.