1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Zhenjiang, 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 Zhenjiang—950,516, 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 Jiangsu, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Zhenjiang is GeoNames ID 1784642. Its recorded administrative path is Zhenjiang Shi → Jiangsu → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Zhenjiang 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 2021-10-07; 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, Zhenjiang ranks 583 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 186; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 340. Its 950,516 population value is 0.82 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.94 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Zhenjiang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Zhenjiang'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.
Zhenjiang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Yangzhou at 20.801 km with 1,584,237 recorded people; Taizhou (Jiangsu) at 52.719 km with 1,607,108 recorded people; Nanjing at 65.896 km with 9,314,685 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 45.095 km. Compared with Yangzhou, Zhenjiang's recorded population is 0.60 times as large. Against Zhenjiang, Yangzhou follows Yangzhou Shi → Jiangsu → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Zhenjiang's. Against Zhenjiang, 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Zhenjiang's. Against Zhenjiang, 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Zhenjiang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 268 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Zhenjiang'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 1784642, the coordinate pair 32.2109 / 119.4551, country rank 186 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1787227 at 20.801 km bind Zhenjiang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Zhenjiang's reference point is 32.2109° north and 119.4551° 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. Zhenjiang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Zhenjiang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Zhenjiang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Zhenjiang, 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
Zhenjiang's closest other entries in this atlas are Yangzhou (20.801 km), Taizhou (Jiangsu) (52.719 km), Nanjing (65.896 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-10-07; 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.