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 Okara—533,693, 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 Okara is GeoNames ID 1168718. Its recorded administrative path is Okara District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Okara 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 2025-02-05; 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, Okara ranks 1,058 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 26; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 560. Its 533,693 population value is 0.74 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.53 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Okara sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Pakistan entries. Okara'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.
Okara's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sahiwal (Sahiwal District) at 37.075 km with 538,344 recorded people; Chunian at 53.241 km with 634,236 recorded people; Arif Wala at 68.589 km with 854,462 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 31.514 km. Compared with Sahiwal (Sahiwal District), Okara's recorded population is 0.99 times as large. Against Okara, Sahiwal (Sahiwal District) follows Sahiwal 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 above Okara's. Against Okara, Chunian follows Kasur → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Okara's. Against Okara, Arif Wala follows Pakpattan 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 above Okara's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 347 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Okara'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 1168718, the coordinate pair 30.8103 / 73.4516, country rank 26 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1166548 at 37.075 km bind Okara to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Okara's reference point is 30.8103° north and 73.4516° 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. Okara's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Okara's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Okara's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Okara, 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
Okara's closest other entries in this atlas are Sahiwal (Sahiwal District) (37.075 km), Chunian (53.241 km), Arif Wala (68.589 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-05; 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.