1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Zaozhuang, 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 Zaozhuang—899,753, 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 Zaozhuang is GeoNames ID 1785453. Its recorded administrative path is Zaozhuang Shi → Shandong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Zaozhuang 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 2021-10-18; 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, Zaozhuang ranks 621 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 194; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 359. Its 899,753 population value is 0.77 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.89 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Zaozhuang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Zaozhuang'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.
Zaozhuang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Linyi at 75.17 km with 2,743,843 recorded people; Xuzhou at 77.485 km with 1,253,991 recorded people; Jining at 106.93 km with 1,241,012 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 31.76 km. Compared with Linyi, Zaozhuang's recorded population is 0.33 times as large. Against Zaozhuang, Linyi follows Linyi 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 above Zaozhuang's. Against Zaozhuang, Xuzhou follows Xuzhou → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Zaozhuang's. Against Zaozhuang, Jining follows Jining Shi → Shandong → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Zaozhuang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 586 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Zaozhuang'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 1785453, the coordinate pair 34.8647 / 117.5542, country rank 194 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1803318 at 75.17 km bind Zaozhuang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Zaozhuang's reference point is 34.8647° north and 117.5542° 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. Zaozhuang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Zaozhuang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Zaozhuang's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Zaozhuang, 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
Zaozhuang's closest other entries in this atlas are Linyi (75.17 km), Xuzhou (77.485 km), Jining (106.93 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-10-18; 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.