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 Rahim Yar Khan—517,000, 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 Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Rahim Yar Khan is GeoNames ID 1167460. Its recorded administrative path is Rahimyar Khan → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Rahim Yar Khan 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 2025-02-04; 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, Rahim Yar Khan ranks 1,099 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 27; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 579. Its 517,000 population value is 0.71 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.51 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Rahim Yar Khan sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Pakistan entries. Rahim Yar Khan'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.
Rahim Yar Khan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jalalpur Pirwala at 150.159 km with 500,000 recorded people; Sukkur at 162.606 km with 563,851 recorded people; Bahawalpur at 172.198 km with 903,795 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 22.039 km. Compared with Jalalpur Pirwala, Rahim Yar Khan's recorded population is 1.03 times as large. Against Rahim Yar Khan, Jalalpur Pirwala follows Multan District → 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 below Rahim Yar Khan's. Against Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur follows Sukkur District → Sindh → 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 Rahim Yar Khan's. Against Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalpur follows Bahawalpur District → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Rahim Yar Khan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 880 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Rahim Yar Khan'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 1167460, the coordinate pair 28.4199 / 70.3035, country rank 27 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1176358 at 150.159 km bind Rahim Yar Khan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Rahim Yar Khan's reference point is 28.4199° north and 70.3035° 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. Rahim Yar Khan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Rahim Yar Khan's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Rahim Yar Khan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Rahim Yar Khan, 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
Rahim Yar Khan's closest other entries in this atlas are Jalalpur Pirwala (150.159 km), Sukkur (162.606 km), Bahawalpur (172.198 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-04; 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.