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 Ismail Khan—763,195, 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 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dera Ismail Khan is GeoNames ID 1180281. Its recorded administrative path is Dera Ismail Khan → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Dera Ismail 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 2025-02-06; 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, Dera Ismail Khan ranks 723 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 15; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 410. Its 763,195 population value is 1.05 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.76 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Dera Ismail Khan sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Pakistan population cohort. Dera Ismail Khan'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.
Dera Ismail Khan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bannu at 131.324 km with 1,357,890 recorded people; Sahiwal (Sargodha District) at 135.86 km with 538,344 recorded people; Jhang Sadr at 147.918 km with 606,533 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 16.594 km. Compared with Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan's recorded population is 0.56 times as large. Against Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu follows Bannu District → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa → 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 Dera Ismail Khan's. Against Dera Ismail Khan, Sahiwal (Sargodha District) follows Sargodha 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Dera Ismail Khan's. Against Dera Ismail Khan, Jhang Sadr follows Jhang 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 Dera Ismail Khan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 820 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dera Ismail 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 1180281, the coordinate pair 31.8313 / 70.9017, country rank 15 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1183460 at 131.324 km bind Dera Ismail Khan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dera Ismail Khan's reference point is 31.8313° north and 70.9017° 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 Ismail Khan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dera Ismail Khan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dera Ismail Khan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dera Ismail 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 Ismail Khan's closest other entries in this atlas are Bannu (131.324 km), Sahiwal (Sargodha District) (135.86 km), Jhang Sadr (147.918 km).
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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.