1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Pakistan
Compare this sourced profile of Sahiwal (Sargodha District), 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 Sahiwal (Sargodha District)—538,344, 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 Sargodha District, Punjab, Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sahiwal (Sargodha District) is GeoNames ID 1166547. Its recorded administrative path is Sargodha District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Sahiwal appears on 2 separate GeoNames rows in this atlas, so the qualifier “Sargodha District” and numeric ID prevent those places from being merged. 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, Sahiwal (Sargodha District) ranks 1,045 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 24; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 554. Its 538,344 population value is 0.74 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.53 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Sahiwal (Sargodha District) sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Pakistan entries. Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'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.
Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'s three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sargodha at 34.657 km with 975,886 recorded people; Jhang Sadr at 78.298 km with 606,533 recorded people; Pindi Bhattian at 89.314 km with 493,222 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 54.657 km. Compared with Sargodha, Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'s recorded population is 0.55 times as large. Against Sahiwal (Sargodha District), Sargodha follows Sargodha 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'s. Against Sahiwal (Sargodha District), Jhang Sadr follows Jhang 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'s. Against Sahiwal (Sargodha District), Pindi Bhattian follows Hafizabad 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'s. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 342 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'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 1166547, the coordinate pair 31.9739 / 72.3311, country rank 24 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1166000 at 34.657 km bind Sahiwal (Sargodha District) to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'s reference point is 31.9739° north and 72.3311° 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. Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'s row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'s point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'s time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sahiwal (Sargodha District), 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
Sahiwal (Sargodha District)'s closest other entries in this atlas are Sargodha (34.657 km), Jhang Sadr (78.298 km), Pindi Bhattian (89.314 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 2026-06-19; 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.