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 Bannu—1,357,890, 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 northwestern Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bannu is GeoNames ID 1183460. Its recorded administrative path is Bannu District → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Bannu 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 2025-02-06; 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, Bannu ranks 369 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 10; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 218. Its 1,357,890 population value is 1.87 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 1.35 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Bannu sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Pakistan population cohort. Bannu's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Bannu's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dera Ismail Khan at 131.324 km with 763,195 recorded people; Peshawar at 145.248 km with 4,758,762 recorded people; Sahiwal (Sargodha District) at 197.207 km with 538,344 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 65.883 km. Compared with Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu's recorded population is 1.78 times as large. Against Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan follows Dera Ismail Khan → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa → Pakistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher 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 Bannu's. Against Bannu, Peshawar follows Peshawar District → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa → Pakistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Pakistan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Karachi identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Bannu's. Against Bannu, Sahiwal (Sargodha District) follows Sargodha District → Punjab → Pakistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher 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 Bannu's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 820 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bannu's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half 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 1183460, the coordinate pair 32.9853 / 70.6040, country rank 10 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1180281 at 131.324 km bind Bannu to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bannu's reference point is 32.9853° north and 70.6040° 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. Bannu's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bannu's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bannu's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bannu, 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
Bannu's closest other entries in this atlas are Dera Ismail Khan (131.324 km), Peshawar (145.248 km), Sahiwal (Sargodha District) (197.207 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-06; 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.