1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Pakistan
Compare this sourced profile of Peshawar, 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 Peshawar—4,758,762, 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 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Peshawar is GeoNames ID 1168197. Its recorded administrative path is Peshawar District → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Peshawar 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, Peshawar ranks 63 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 3; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 39. Its 4,758,762 population value is 6.56 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 4.72 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Peshawar falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Pakistan population cohort. Peshawar'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.
Peshawar's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Islamabad at 138.947 km with 601,600 recorded people; Rawalpindi at 143.243 km with 3,357,612 recorded people; Bannu at 145.248 km with 1,357,890 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 6.301 km. Compared with Islamabad, Peshawar's recorded population is 7.91 times as large. Against Peshawar, Islamabad follows Islamabad → 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 capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Peshawar's. Against Peshawar, Rawalpindi follows Rawalpindi 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Peshawar's. Against Peshawar, Bannu follows Bannu District → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Peshawar's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 846 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Peshawar'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 1168197, the coordinate pair 34.0080 / 71.5785, country rank 3 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1176615 at 138.947 km bind Peshawar to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Peshawar's reference point is 34.0080° north and 71.5785° 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. Peshawar's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Peshawar's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Peshawar's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Peshawar, 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
Peshawar's closest other entries in this atlas are Islamabad (138.947 km), Rawalpindi (143.243 km), Bannu (145.248 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.