1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Pakistan
Compare this sourced profile of Quetta, 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 Quetta—1,565,546, 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 Balochistan Province, Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Quetta is GeoNames ID 1167528. Its recorded administrative path is Quetta District → Balochistan → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Quetta 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, Quetta ranks 296 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 9; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 172. Its 1,565,546 population value is 2.16 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 1.55 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Quetta sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Pakistan population cohort. Quetta'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.
Quetta's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kandahar at 201.079 km with 523,300 recorded people; Sukkur at 329.787 km with 563,851 recorded people; Dera Ghazi Khan at 350.331 km with 494,464 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 149.252 km. Compared with Kandahar, Quetta's recorded population is 2.99 times as large. Against Quetta, Kandahar follows Kandahar District → Kandahar → Afghanistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Afghanistan cohort rather than Pakistan, uses Asia/Kabul instead of Asia/Karachi, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Quetta's. Against Quetta, Sukkur follows Sukkur District → Sindh → 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 Quetta's. Against Quetta, Dera Ghazi Khan follows Dera Ghazi Khan 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 Quetta's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 995 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Quetta'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 1167528, the coordinate pair 30.1841 / 67.0014, country rank 9 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1138336 at 201.079 km bind Quetta to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Quetta's reference point is 30.1841° north and 67.0014° 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. Quetta's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Quetta's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Quetta's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Quetta, 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
Quetta's closest other entries in this atlas are Kandahar (201.079 km), Sukkur (329.787 km), Dera Ghazi Khan (350.331 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 2026-04-14; 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.