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 Jhang Sadr—606,533, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Jhang Sadr is GeoNames ID 1175892. Its recorded administrative path is Jhang District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Jhang Sadr 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, Jhang Sadr ranks 919 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 19; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 497. Its 606,533 population value is 0.84 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.60 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Jhang Sadr sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Pakistan entries. Jhang Sadr'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.
Jhang Sadr's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Faisalabad at 75.161 km with 3,800,193 recorded people; Sahiwal (Sargodha District) at 78.298 km with 538,344 recorded people; Sargodha at 96.835 km with 975,886 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 21.674 km. Compared with Faisalabad, Jhang Sadr's recorded population is 0.16 times as large. Against Jhang Sadr, Faisalabad follows Faisalabad 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 Jhang Sadr's. Against Jhang Sadr, 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Jhang Sadr's. Against Jhang Sadr, Sargodha 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Jhang Sadr's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 585 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jhang Sadr'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 1175892, the coordinate pair 31.2698 / 72.3169, country rank 19 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1179400 at 75.161 km bind Jhang Sadr to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Jhang Sadr's reference point is 31.2698° north and 72.3169° 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. Jhang Sadr's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Jhang Sadr's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jhang Sadr's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jhang Sadr, 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
Jhang Sadr's closest other entries in this atlas are Faisalabad (75.161 km), Sahiwal (Sargodha District) (78.298 km), Sargodha (96.835 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.