1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Pakistan
Compare this sourced profile of Pindi Bhattian, 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 Pindi Bhattian—493,222, 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: human settlement in Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Pindi Bhattian is GeoNames ID 1168021. Its recorded administrative path is Hafizabad District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Pindi Bhattian 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 2026-06-19; 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, Pindi Bhattian ranks 1,161 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 31; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 616. Its 493,222 population value is 0.68 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.49 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Pindi Bhattian sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Pakistan entries. Pindi Bhattian'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.
Pindi Bhattian's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Faisalabad at 56.441 km with 3,800,193 recorded people; Sargodha at 60.23 km with 975,886 recorded people; Shekhupura at 70.391 km with 591,424 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 13.95 km. Compared with Faisalabad, Pindi Bhattian's recorded population is 0.13 times as large. Against Pindi Bhattian, Faisalabad follows Faisalabad 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Pindi Bhattian's. Against Pindi Bhattian, Sargodha follows Sargodha 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 populated place. Its recorded population is above Pindi Bhattian's. Against Pindi Bhattian, Shekhupura follows Shekhupura 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 populated place. Its recorded population is above Pindi Bhattian's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 483 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Pindi Bhattian'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 1168021, the coordinate pair 31.8984 / 73.2734, country rank 31 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1179400 at 56.441 km bind Pindi Bhattian to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Pindi Bhattian's reference point is 31.8984° north and 73.2734° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Karachi is shared by 31 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Pindi Bhattian's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Pindi Bhattian's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Pindi Bhattian's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Pindi Bhattian, 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
Pindi Bhattian's closest other entries in this atlas are Faisalabad (56.441 km), Sargodha (60.23 km), Shekhupura (70.391 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-19; 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.