1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Pakistan
Compare this sourced profile of Jalalpur Pirwala, 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 Jalalpur Pirwala—500,000, 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: human settlement in Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Jalalpur Pirwala is GeoNames ID 1176358. Its recorded administrative path is Multan District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Jalalpur Pirwala 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 2026-06-18; 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, Jalalpur Pirwala ranks 1,144 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 29; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 602. Its 500,000 population value is 0.69 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.50 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Jalalpur Pirwala sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Pakistan entries. Jalalpur Pirwala'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.
Jalalpur Pirwala's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bahawalpur at 45.473 km with 903,795 recorded people; Multan at 80.784 km with 2,169,915 recorded people; Dera Ghazi Khan at 82.268 km with 494,464 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 36.795 km. Compared with Bahawalpur, Jalalpur Pirwala's recorded population is 0.55 times as large. Against Jalalpur Pirwala, 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Jalalpur Pirwala's. Against Jalalpur Pirwala, 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Jalalpur Pirwala's. Against Jalalpur Pirwala, Dera Ghazi Khan follows Dera Ghazi Khan District → Punjab → 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Jalalpur Pirwala's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 399 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jalalpur Pirwala'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 1176358, the coordinate pair 29.5051 / 71.2220, country rank 29 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1183880 at 45.473 km bind Jalalpur Pirwala to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Jalalpur Pirwala's reference point is 29.5051° north and 71.2220° 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. Jalalpur Pirwala's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Jalalpur Pirwala's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jalalpur Pirwala's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jalalpur Pirwala, 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
Jalalpur Pirwala's closest other entries in this atlas are Bahawalpur (45.473 km), Multan (80.784 km), Dera Ghazi Khan (82.268 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-18; 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.