1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Pakistan
Compare this sourced profile of Karachi, 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 Karachi—11,624,219, 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: provincial capital of Sindh, Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Karachi is GeoNames ID 1174872. Its recorded administrative path is Sindh → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Karachi 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 2026-04-14; 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, Karachi ranks 14 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 2; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 9. Its 11,624,219 population value is 16.03 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 11.53 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Karachi falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Pakistan population cohort. Karachi's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Karachi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Hyderabad (Pakistan) at 149.951 km with 1,921,275 recorded people; Sukkur at 365.853 km with 563,851 recorded people; Jamnagar at 409.098 km with 600,943 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 259.147 km. Compared with Hyderabad (Pakistan), Karachi's recorded population is 6.05 times as large. Against Karachi, Hyderabad (Pakistan) follows Hyderabad District → Sindh → 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Karachi's. Against Karachi, Sukkur follows Sukkur District → Sindh → 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Karachi's. Against Karachi, Jamnagar follows Jamnagar → Gujarat → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected India cohort rather than Pakistan, uses Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Karachi, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Karachi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 878 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Karachi'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 1174872, the coordinate pair 24.8608 / 67.0104, country rank 2 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1176734 at 149.951 km bind Karachi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Karachi's reference point is 24.8608° north and 67.0104° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Karachi is shared by 31 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Karachi's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Karachi's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Karachi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Karachi, 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
Karachi's closest other entries in this atlas are Hyderabad (Pakistan) (149.951 km), Sukkur (365.853 km), Jamnagar (409.098 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.