1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Yinchuan, 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 Yinchuan—1,487,579, 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 Ningxia, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Yinchuan is GeoNames ID 1786657. Its recorded administrative path is Yinchuan Shi → Ningxia → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Yinchuan 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 2026-04-13; 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, Yinchuan ranks 319 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 101; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 182. Its 1,487,579 population value is 1.28 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.48 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Yinchuan sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Yinchuan'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.
Yinchuan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Wuzhong at 53.894 km with 7,202,654 recorded people; Shizuishan at 57.9 km with 739,400 recorded people; Zhongwei at 142.532 km with 1,174,600 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 88.638 km. Compared with Wuzhong, Yinchuan's recorded population is 0.21 times as large. Against Yinchuan, Wuzhong follows Wuzhong Shi → Ningxia → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Yinchuan's. Against Yinchuan, Shizuishan follows Shizuishan Shi → Ningxia → 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Yinchuan's. Against Yinchuan, Zhongwei follows Zhongwei Shi → Ningxia → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Yinchuan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 473 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Yinchuan'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 1786657, the coordinate pair 38.4681 / 106.2731, country rank 101 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1790842 at 53.894 km bind Yinchuan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Yinchuan's reference point is 38.4681° north and 106.2731° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Yinchuan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Yinchuan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Yinchuan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Yinchuan, 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
Yinchuan's closest other entries in this atlas are Wuzhong (53.894 km), Shizuishan (57.9 km), Zhongwei (142.532 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.