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 Shekhupura—591,424, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Shekhupura is GeoNames ID 1165221. Its recorded administrative path is Shekhupura District → Punjab → Pakistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Shekhupura 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 2025-02-05; 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, Shekhupura ranks 948 by recorded population. Inside the 31 selected Pakistan entries it ranks 21; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 511. Its 591,424 population value is 0.82 times the 725,000 median for the country cohort and 0.59 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shekhupura sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Pakistan entries. Shekhupura's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Shekhupura's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Lahore at 38.621 km with 13,004,135 recorded people; Gujranwala at 52.781 km with 2,511,118 recorded people; Pindi Bhattian at 70.391 km with 493,222 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 31.77 km. Compared with Lahore, Shekhupura's recorded population is 0.05 times as large. Against Shekhupura, Lahore follows Lahore 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shekhupura's. Against Shekhupura, Gujranwala follows Gujranwala 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 Shekhupura's. Against Shekhupura, Pindi Bhattian follows Hafizabad 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Shekhupura's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 356 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shekhupura'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 1165221, the coordinate pair 31.7129 / 73.9856, country rank 21 of 31, and neighbor GeoNames 1172451 at 38.621 km bind Shekhupura to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shekhupura's reference point is 31.7129° north and 73.9856° 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. Shekhupura's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shekhupura's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shekhupura's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shekhupura, 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
Shekhupura's closest other entries in this atlas are Lahore (38.621 km), Gujranwala (52.781 km), Pindi Bhattian (70.391 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.