1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Zigong, 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 Zigong—1,262,064, 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 Sichuan, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Zigong is GeoNames ID 1783745. Its recorded administrative path is Zigong Shi → Sichuan → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Zigong 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 2021-10-19; 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, Zigong ranks 406 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 133; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 240. Its 1,262,064 population value is 1.08 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 1.25 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Zigong sits in the second quarter of this atlas's China population cohort. Zigong'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.
Zigong's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Neijiang at 38.554 km with 1,251,095 recorded people; Yibin at 66.105 km with 836,340 recorded people; Luzhou at 80.57 km with 998,900 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 42.016 km. Compared with Neijiang, Zigong's recorded population is 1.01 times as large. Against Zigong, Neijiang follows Neijiang Shi → Sichuan → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Zigong's. Against Zigong, Yibin follows Yibin Shi → Sichuan → 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 third-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Zigong's. Against Zigong, Luzhou follows Luzhou Shi → Sichuan → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Zigong's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 354 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Zigong'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 1783745, the coordinate pair 29.3416 / 104.7769, country rank 133 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 1799491 at 38.554 km bind Zigong to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Zigong's reference point is 29.3416° north and 104.7769° 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. Zigong's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Zigong's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Zigong's place-class field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its time zone is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Zigong, 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
Zigong's closest other entries in this atlas are Neijiang (38.554 km), Yibin (66.105 km), Luzhou (80.57 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-10-19; 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.