1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United Arab Emirates
Compare this sourced profile of Ajman, United Arab Emirates 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 Ajman—490,035, Asia/Dubai, 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: Capital of the Emirate of Ajman in the United Arab Emirates.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ajman is GeoNames ID 292932. Its recorded administrative path is Ajman → United Arab Emirates, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Ajman 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 2026-04-13; 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, Ajman ranks 1,169 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected United Arab Emirates entries it ranks 5; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 235. Its 490,035 population value is 0.27 times the 1,800,000 median for the country cohort and 0.54 times the 902,588 regional median. Ajman is rank 5 among the 5 selected United Arab Emirates entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Ajman'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.
Ajman's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sharjah at 10.059 km with 1,800,000 recorded people; Dubai at 39.91 km with 3,790,000 recorded people; Al Ain City at 137.53 km with 846,747 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 127.471 km. Compared with Sharjah, Ajman's recorded population is 0.27 times as large. Against Ajman, Sharjah follows Sharjah → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Arab Emirates cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dubai identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Ajman's. Against Ajman, Dubai follows Dubai → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Arab Emirates cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dubai identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Ajman's. Against Ajman, Al Ain City follows Al Ain Municipality → Abu Dhabi → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Arab Emirates cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dubai identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ajman's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 152 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ajman'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 292932, the coordinate pair 25.4018 / 55.4788, country rank 5 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 292672 at 10.059 km bind Ajman to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ajman's reference point is 25.4018° north and 55.4788° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Dubai is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Ajman's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Ajman's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ajman's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ajman, 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
Ajman's closest other entries in this atlas are Sharjah (10.059 km), Dubai (39.91 km), Al Ain City (137.53 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.