1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Zhucheng, 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 Zhucheng—499,285, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Zhucheng is GeoNames ID 1783988. Its recorded administrative path is Weifang Shi → Shandong → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a third-order administrative seat. Zhucheng 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 2021-10-06; 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, Zhucheng ranks 1,149 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 292; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 606. Its 499,285 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. Zhucheng sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected China entries. Zhucheng'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.
Zhucheng's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zhu Cheng City at 0.459 km with 1,000,000 recorded people; Jiaozhou at 63.195 km with 619,266 recorded people; Rizhao at 65.642 km with 661,943 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 65.183 km. Compared with Zhu Cheng City, Zhucheng's recorded population is 0.50 times as large. Against Zhucheng, Zhu Cheng City follows Weifang 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 the same third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Zhucheng's. Against Zhucheng, Jiaozhou follows Qingdao 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 the same third-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Zhucheng's. Against Zhucheng, Rizhao follows Rizhao Shi → Shandong → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than third-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Zhucheng's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Zhucheng's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth 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 1783988, the coordinate pair 35.9947 / 119.3975, country rank 292 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 7602670 at 0.459 km bind Zhucheng to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Zhucheng's reference point is 35.9947° north and 119.3975° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA3 is shared by 60 rows. Zhucheng's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Zhucheng's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Zhucheng's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Zhucheng, 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
Zhucheng's closest other entries in this atlas are Zhu Cheng City (0.459 km), Jiaozhou (63.195 km), Rizhao (65.642 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-10-06; 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.