1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Yantai, 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 Yantai—2,227,733, 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 Shandong, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Yantai is GeoNames ID 1787093. Its recorded administrative path is Yantai Shi → Shandong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Yantai 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 2025-12-14; 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, Yantai ranks 175 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 60; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 110. Its 2,227,733 population value is 1.91 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 2.21 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Yantai falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Yantai'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.
Yantai's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Weihai at 59.464 km with 844,310 recorded people; Pingdu at 153.207 km with 542,234 recorded people; Dalian at 160.268 km with 4,913,879 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 100.804 km. Compared with Weihai, Yantai's recorded population is 2.64 times as large. Against Yantai, Weihai follows Weihai 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Yantai's. Against Yantai, Pingdu follows Qingdao Shi → Shandong → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Yantai's. Against Yantai, Dalian follows Dalian Shi → Liaoning → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Yantai's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 499 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Yantai'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 1787093, the coordinate pair 37.4765 / 121.4408, country rank 60 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1791673 at 59.464 km bind Yantai to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Yantai's reference point is 37.4765° north and 121.4408° 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. Yantai's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Yantai's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Yantai's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Yantai, 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
Yantai's closest other entries in this atlas are Weihai (59.464 km), Pingdu (153.207 km), Dalian (160.268 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-14; 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.