1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Yichang, 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 Yichang—1,350,150, 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 Hubei, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Yichang is GeoNames ID 1786764. Its recorded administrative path is Yichangshi → Hubei → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Yichang 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 2021-10-12; 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, Yichang ranks 370 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 122; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 219. Its 1,350,150 population value is 1.16 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.34 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Yichang sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Yichang'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.
Yichang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jingmen at 94.704 km with 632,954 recorded people; Jingzhou at 95.718 km with 1,052,282 recorded people; Xiangyang at 168.711 km with 1,294,733 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 74.007 km. Compared with Jingmen, Yichang's recorded population is 2.13 times as large. Against Yichang, Jingmen follows Jingmen Shi → Hubei → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Yichang's. Against Yichang, Jingzhou follows Jingzhou Shi → Hubei → 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 below Yichang's. Against Yichang, Xiangyang follows Xiangyang → Hubei → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Yichang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 674 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Yichang'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 1786764, the coordinate pair 30.7144 / 111.2847, country rank 122 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1805611 at 94.704 km bind Yichang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Yichang's reference point is 30.7144° north and 111.2847° 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. Yichang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Yichang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Yichang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Yichang, 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
Yichang's closest other entries in this atlas are Jingmen (94.704 km), Jingzhou (95.718 km), Xiangyang (168.711 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-10-12; 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.