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Kot Karam Khan

human settlement in Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6433751 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kot Karam Khan is a small town in the Rahim Yar Khan District of Punjab, Pakistan. Its geographical coordinates are 28° 35' 20" north, 70° 8' 40" east and its original name (with diacritics) is Kot Karam Khān.

It is surrounded by many small villages, with the nearest large town being Jamaldin Wali. The district capital, Rahim Yar Khan, is 32 km to the northeast.

History and demographics

As of the 1998 census, the town had a population of between 3,000 and 4,000.

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The public source identifies “Kot Karam Khan” as human settlement in Pakistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Karam, Khan and human.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Karam, Khan and human providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6433751. Authority coordinates are 28.583, 70.150. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kot Karam Khan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.