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 Dera Ghazi Khan—494,464, 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 Dera Ghazi Khan is GeoNames ID 1180289. Its recorded administrative path is Dera Ghazi Khan District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Dera Ghazi Khan 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, Dera Ghazi Khan ranks 1,159 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 30; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 614. Its 494,464 population value is 0.68 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.49 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Dera Ghazi Khan sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Pakistan entries. Dera Ghazi Khan's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Dera Ghazi Khan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jalalpur Pirwala at 82.268 km with 500,000 recorded people; Multan at 82.322 km with 2,169,915 recorded people; Bahawalpur at 123.209 km with 903,795 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 40.941 km. Compared with Jalalpur Pirwala, Dera Ghazi Khan's recorded population is 0.99 times as large. Against Dera Ghazi Khan, Jalalpur Pirwala follows Multan 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 above Dera Ghazi Khan's. Against Dera Ghazi Khan, Multan follows Multan 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Dera Ghazi Khan's. Against Dera Ghazi Khan, Bahawalpur follows Bahawalpur 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Dera Ghazi Khan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 626 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dera Ghazi Khan'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 1180289, the coordinate pair 30.0459 / 70.6403, country rank 30 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1176358 at 82.268 km bind Dera Ghazi Khan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dera Ghazi Khan's reference point is 30.0459° north and 70.6403° 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. Dera Ghazi Khan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dera Ghazi Khan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dera Ghazi Khan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dera Ghazi Khan, 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
Dera Ghazi Khan's closest other entries in this atlas are Jalalpur Pirwala (82.268 km), Multan (82.322 km), Bahawalpur (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.