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Cuntan station

Metro station in Chongqing, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ55689809 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cuntan Station is a station on Line 4 of Chongqing Rail Transit in Chongqing municipality, China. It is located in Liangjiang New Area and opened in 2018.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Cuntan station” as metro station in Chongqing, China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cuntan, station and Metro.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cuntan, station and Metro providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Cuntan station”, the useful work is to connect “metro station in Chongqing, China” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55689809. Authority coordinates are 29.625, 106.603. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Cuntan station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Cuntan station primary sources, Cuntan station archive and Cuntan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Cuntan station”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Cuntan station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.