1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United Arab Emirates
Compare this sourced profile of Al Ain City, 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 Al Ain City—846,747, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Al Ain City is GeoNames ID 292913. Its recorded administrative path is Al Ain Municipality → Abu Dhabi → United Arab Emirates, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Al Ain City 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 2024-07-13; 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, Al Ain City ranks 658 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected United Arab Emirates entries it ranks 4; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 129. Its 846,747 population value is 0.47 times the 1,800,000 median for the country cohort and 0.94 times the 902,588 regional median. Al Ain City is rank 4 among the 5 selected United Arab Emirates entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Al Ain City'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.
Al Ain City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dubai at 108.523 km with 3,790,000 recorded people; Sharjah at 131.822 km with 1,800,000 recorded people; Ajman at 137.53 km with 490,035 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 29.007 km. Compared with Dubai, Al Ain City's recorded population is 0.22 times as large. Against Al Ain City, Dubai follows Dubai → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Arab Emirates cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dubai identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Al Ain City's. Against Al Ain City, Sharjah follows Sharjah → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Arab Emirates cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dubai identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Al Ain City's. Against Al Ain City, Ajman follows Ajman → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Arab Emirates cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dubai identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Al Ain City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 729 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Al Ain City's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half 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 292913, the coordinate pair 24.1917 / 55.7606, country rank 4 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 292223 at 108.523 km bind Al Ain City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Al Ain City's reference point is 24.1917° north and 55.7606° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Dubai is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Al Ain City's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Al Ain City's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Al Ain City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Al Ain City, 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
Al Ain City's closest other entries in this atlas are Dubai (108.523 km), Sharjah (131.822 km), Ajman (137.53 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-13; 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.