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 Rawalpindi—3,357,612, 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 Rawalpindi is GeoNames ID 1166993. Its recorded administrative path is Rawalpindi District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Rawalpindi 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 2025-05-15; 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, Rawalpindi ranks 102 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 5; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 66. Its 3,357,612 population value is 4.63 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 3.33 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Rawalpindi falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Pakistan population cohort. Rawalpindi'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.
Rawalpindi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Islamabad at 13.811 km with 601,600 recorded people; Muzaffarabad at 94.354 km with 725,000 recorded people; Battagram at 120.096 km with 700,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 106.285 km. Compared with Islamabad, Rawalpindi's recorded population is 5.58 times as large. Against Rawalpindi, Islamabad follows Islamabad → 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 capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Rawalpindi's. Against Rawalpindi, Muzaffarabad follows Muzaffarabad District → Azad Kashmir → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Rawalpindi's. Against Rawalpindi, Battagram follows Battagram District → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Rawalpindi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 197 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Rawalpindi's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1166993, the coordinate pair 33.5973 / 73.0479, country rank 5 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1176615 at 13.811 km bind Rawalpindi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Rawalpindi's reference point is 33.5973° north and 73.0479° 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. Rawalpindi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Rawalpindi's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Rawalpindi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Rawalpindi, 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
Rawalpindi's closest other entries in this atlas are Islamabad (13.811 km), Muzaffarabad (94.354 km), Battagram (120.096 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 2025-05-15; 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.