1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Pakistan
Compare this sourced profile of Islamabad, 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 Islamabad—601,600, 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: capital city of Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Islamabad is GeoNames ID 1176615. Its recorded administrative path is Islamabad → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Islamabad 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 2019-09-05; 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, Islamabad ranks 928 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 20; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 501. Its 601,600 population value is 0.83 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.60 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Islamabad sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Pakistan entries. Islamabad'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.
Islamabad's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Rawalpindi at 13.811 km with 3,357,612 recorded people; Muzaffarabad at 82.171 km with 725,000 recorded people; Battagram at 106.286 km with 700,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 92.475 km. Compared with Rawalpindi, Islamabad's recorded population is 0.18 times as large. Against Islamabad, Rawalpindi follows Rawalpindi 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 second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Islamabad's. Against Islamabad, Muzaffarabad follows Muzaffarabad District → Azad Kashmir → 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 capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Islamabad's. Against Islamabad, Battagram follows Battagram 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 second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Islamabad's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 197 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Islamabad's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1176615, the coordinate pair 33.7215 / 73.0433, country rank 20 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1166993 at 13.811 km bind Islamabad to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Islamabad's reference point is 33.7215° north and 73.0433° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Karachi is shared by 31 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Islamabad's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Islamabad's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Islamabad's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Islamabad, 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
Islamabad's closest other entries in this atlas are Rawalpindi (13.811 km), Muzaffarabad (82.171 km), Battagram (106.286 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Islamabad, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2019-09-05; 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.