1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Pakistan
Compare this sourced profile of Sahiwal (Sahiwal 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 (Sahiwal 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 Sahiwal District, Punjab, Pakistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sahiwal (Sahiwal District) is GeoNames ID 1166548. Its recorded administrative path is Sahiwal District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Sahiwal appears on 2 separate GeoNames rows in this atlas, so the qualifier “Sahiwal District” and numeric ID prevent those places from being merged. The city row itself was updated 2025-02-05; 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 (Sahiwal 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 (Sahiwal District) sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Pakistan entries. Sahiwal (Sahiwal 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 (Sahiwal District)'s three nearest other atlas coordinates are Okara at 37.075 km with 533,693 recorded people; Arif Wala at 41.883 km with 854,462 recorded people; Faisalabad at 83.359 km with 3,800,193 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 46.284 km. Compared with Okara, Sahiwal (Sahiwal District)'s recorded population is 1.01 times as large. Against Sahiwal (Sahiwal District), Okara follows Okara 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 below Sahiwal (Sahiwal District)'s. Against Sahiwal (Sahiwal District), Arif Wala follows Pakpattan 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Sahiwal (Sahiwal District)'s. Against Sahiwal (Sahiwal District), Faisalabad follows Faisalabad 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Sahiwal (Sahiwal District)'s. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 347 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sahiwal (Sahiwal 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 1166548, the coordinate pair 30.6660 / 73.1019, country rank 24 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1168718 at 37.075 km bind Sahiwal (Sahiwal District) to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sahiwal (Sahiwal District)'s reference point is 30.6660° north and 73.1019° 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. Sahiwal (Sahiwal District)'s row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sahiwal (Sahiwal District)'s point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sahiwal (Sahiwal District)'s time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sahiwal (Sahiwal 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 (Sahiwal District)'s closest other entries in this atlas are Okara (37.075 km), Arif Wala (41.883 km), Faisalabad (83.359 km).
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-05; 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.