Source identity and administrative path
The source row behind Yangzhou is GeoNames ID 1787227. Its recorded administrative path is Yangzhou Shi → Jiangsu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Yangzhou 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 2026-04-29; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Population position inside fixed cohorts
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Yangzhou ranks 289 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 95; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 169. Its 1,584,237 population value is 1.36 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.57 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Yangzhou sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Yangzhou'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.
Nearest-reference pattern
Yangzhou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zhenjiang at 20.801 km with 950,516 recorded people; Taizhou (Jiangsu) at 45.522 km with 1,607,108 recorded people; Nanjing at 72.273 km with 9,314,685 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 51.472 km. Compared with Zhenjiang, Yangzhou's recorded population is 1.67 times as large. Against Yangzhou, Zhenjiang follows Zhenjiang Shi → Jiangsu → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Yangzhou's. Against Yangzhou, Taizhou (Jiangsu) follows Taizhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Yangzhou's. Against Yangzhou, Nanjing follows Nanjing 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Yangzhou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 268 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Yangzhou's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1787227, the coordinate pair 32.3972 / 119.4358, country rank 95 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1784642 at 20.801 km bind Yangzhou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts
Yangzhou's reference point is 32.3972° north and 119.4358° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Yangzhou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Yangzhou's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Yangzhou's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Yangzhou, 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.
- Record keys
- Yangzhou · GeoNames 1787227 · Q57906
- Name scope
- Yangzhou · 1 atlas row share this source label · qualifier not required
- Administrative chain
- Yangzhou Shi · Jiangsu · China
- Coordinate signature
- 32.3972° N · 119.4358° E
- Population snapshot
- 1,584,237 · atlas rank 289 of 1,206
- Country comparison
- China rank 95 of 296 · median 1,165,375 · ratio 1.36×
- Regional comparison
- Asia rank 169 of 632 · median 1,008,426 · ratio 1.57×
- Time-zone cohort
- Asia/Shanghai · 291 of 1,206 atlas rows
- Place-class cohort
- PPL populated place · 243 of 1,206 rows
- Elevation field
- Yangzhou · missing in GeoNames
- Nearest reference
- Zhenjiang · 20.801 km · population 950,516 · atlas rank 583
- Second reference
- Taizhou (Jiangsu) · 45.522 km · population 1,607,108 · atlas rank 283
- Third reference
- Nanjing · 72.273 km · population 9,314,685 · atlas rank 26
- Neighbour geometry
- Yangzhou · nearest-distance rank 268 of 1,206 · three-reference spread 51.472 km
- Source dates
- Yangzhou row updated 2026-04-29 · atlas dataset checked 2026-08-04