1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Pakistan
Compare this sourced profile of Multan, 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 Multan—2,169,915, 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: city in Punjab, Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Multan is GeoNames ID 1169825. Its recorded administrative path is Multan District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Multan 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 2026-04-29; 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, Multan ranks 184 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 7; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 112. Its 2,169,915 population value is 2.99 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 2.15 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Multan falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Pakistan population cohort. Multan'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.
Multan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jalalpur Pirwala at 80.784 km with 500,000 recorded people; Dera Ghazi Khan at 82.322 km with 494,464 recorded people; Bahawalpur at 90.855 km with 903,795 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 10.071 km. Compared with Jalalpur Pirwala, Multan's recorded population is 4.34 times as large. Against Multan, Jalalpur Pirwala follows Multan District → Punjab → Pakistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Pakistan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Karachi identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Multan's. Against Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan follows Dera Ghazi Khan District → Punjab → Pakistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Pakistan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Karachi identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Multan's. Against Multan, 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Multan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 617 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Multan'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 1169825, the coordinate pair 30.1968 / 71.4782, country rank 7 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1176358 at 80.784 km bind Multan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Multan's reference point is 30.1968° north and 71.4782° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Karachi is shared by 31 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Multan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Multan's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Multan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Multan, 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
Multan's closest other entries in this atlas are Jalalpur Pirwala (80.784 km), Dera Ghazi Khan (82.322 km), Bahawalpur (90.855 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-29; 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.