1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Zhoukou, 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 Zhoukou—505,171, 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 Henan, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Zhoukou is GeoNames ID 1784130. Its recorded administrative path is Zhoukou Shi → Henan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Zhoukou 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, Zhoukou ranks 1,133 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 289; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 596. Its 505,171 population value is 0.43 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 0.50 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Zhoukou sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Zhoukou's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Zhoukou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Luohe at 56.021 km with 1,294,974 recorded people; Xuchang at 83.826 km with 1,265,536 recorded people; Zhumadian at 91.664 km with 721,670 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 35.643 km. Compared with Luohe, Zhoukou's recorded population is 0.39 times as large. Against Zhoukou, Luohe follows Luohe Shi → Henan → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Zhoukou's. Against Zhoukou, Xuchang follows Xuchang Shi → Henan → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Zhoukou's. Against Zhoukou, Zhumadian follows Zhumadian Shi → Henan → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Zhoukou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 482 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Zhoukou'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 1784130, the coordinate pair 33.6333 / 114.6333, country rank 289 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1801934 at 56.021 km bind Zhoukou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Zhoukou's reference point is 33.6333° north and 114.6333° 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. Zhoukou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Zhoukou's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Zhoukou's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Zhoukou, 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
Zhoukou's closest other entries in this atlas are Luohe (56.021 km), Xuchang (83.826 km), Zhumadian (91.664 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.