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 Lahore—13,004,135, 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 of the Punjab province, Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Lahore is GeoNames ID 1172451. Its recorded administrative path is Lahore District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Lahore 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, Lahore ranks 10 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 7. Its 13,004,135 population value is 17.94 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 12.90 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Lahore falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Pakistan population cohort. Lahore'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.
Lahore's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Shekhupura at 38.621 km with 591,424 recorded people; Kasur at 49.759 km with 510,875 recorded people; Amritsar at 50.204 km with 1,159,227 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 11.583 km. Compared with Shekhupura, Lahore's recorded population is 21.99 times as large. Against Lahore, Shekhupura follows Shekhupura 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Lahore's. Against Lahore, Kasur follows Kasur → 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Lahore's. Against Lahore, Amritsar follows Amritsar → Punjab → India in the source. Its point has higher 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 Lahore's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 356 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Lahore'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 1172451, the coordinate pair 31.5580 / 74.3507, country rank 1 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1165221 at 38.621 km bind Lahore to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Lahore's reference point is 31.5580° north and 74.3507° 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. Lahore's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Lahore's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Lahore's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Lahore, 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
Lahore's closest other entries in this atlas are Shekhupura (38.621 km), Kasur (49.759 km), Amritsar (50.204 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.