1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Pakistan
Compare this sourced profile of Chunian, Pakistan 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 Chunian—634,236, 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 Chunian is GeoNames ID 1180942. Its recorded administrative path is Kasur → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Chunian 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 2026-06-17; 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, Chunian ranks 880 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 18; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 481. Its 634,236 population value is 0.87 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.63 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Chunian sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Pakistan entries. Chunian'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.
Chunian's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kasur at 47.983 km with 510,875 recorded people; Okara at 53.241 km with 533,693 recorded people; Lahore at 74.685 km with 13,004,135 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 26.702 km. Compared with Kasur, Chunian's recorded population is 1.24 times as large. Against Chunian, Kasur follows Kasur → Punjab → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Chunian's. Against Chunian, Okara follows Okara District → Punjab → Pakistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Pakistan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Karachi identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Chunian's. Against Chunian, Lahore follows Lahore District → Punjab → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is above Chunian's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 415 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Chunian'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 1180942, the coordinate pair 30.9662 / 73.9791, country rank 18 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1174625 at 47.983 km bind Chunian to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Chunian's reference point is 30.9662° north and 73.9791° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Karachi is shared by 31 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Chunian's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Chunian's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Chunian's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Chunian, 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
Chunian's closest other entries in this atlas are Kasur (47.983 km), Okara (53.241 km), Lahore (74.685 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-17; 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.