1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Pakistan
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Bahawalpur—903,795, Asia/Karachi, 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: city in Punjab, Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bahawalpur is GeoNames ID 1183880. Its recorded administrative path is Bahawalpur District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Bahawalpur 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 2025-02-04; 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, Bahawalpur ranks 614 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 13; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 356. Its 903,795 population value is 1.25 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.90 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bahawalpur sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Pakistan population cohort. Bahawalpur'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.
Bahawalpur's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jalalpur Pirwala at 45.473 km with 500,000 recorded people; Multan at 90.855 km with 2,169,915 recorded people; Dera Ghazi Khan at 123.209 km with 494,464 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 77.736 km. Compared with Jalalpur Pirwala, Bahawalpur's recorded population is 1.81 times as large. Against Bahawalpur, Jalalpur Pirwala follows Multan District → Punjab → Pakistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Pakistan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Karachi identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Bahawalpur's. Against Bahawalpur, Multan follows Multan District → Punjab → Pakistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Pakistan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Karachi identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Bahawalpur's. Against Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan follows Dera Ghazi Khan District → Punjab → Pakistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Pakistan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Karachi identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Bahawalpur's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 399 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bahawalpur'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 1183880, the coordinate pair 29.3978 / 71.6752, country rank 13 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1176358 at 45.473 km bind Bahawalpur to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bahawalpur's reference point is 29.3978° north and 71.6752° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Karachi is shared by 31 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Bahawalpur's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bahawalpur's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bahawalpur's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bahawalpur, 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
Bahawalpur's closest other entries in this atlas are Jalalpur Pirwala (45.473 km), Multan (90.855 km), Dera Ghazi Khan (123.209 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-04; 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.