1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Somalia
Compare this sourced profile of Borama, Somalia 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 Borama—597,842, Africa/Mogadishu, 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 Somalia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Borama is GeoNames ID 64021. Its recorded administrative path is Awdal → Somalia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Borama 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 2023-11-30; 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, Borama ranks 934 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Somalia entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 190. Its 597,842 population value is 0.38 times the 1,592,513 median for the country cohort and 0.66 times the 902,588 regional median. Borama is rank 2 among the 2 selected Somalia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Borama'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.
Borama's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jijiga at 77.513 km with 483,000 recorded people; Balbala at 180.975 km with 554,350 recorded people; Djibouti at 183.84 km with 626,512 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 106.327 km. Compared with Jijiga, Borama's recorded population is 1.24 times as large. Against Borama, Jijiga follows Somali → Ethiopia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Ethiopia cohort rather than Somalia, uses Africa/Addis_Ababa instead of Africa/Mogadishu, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Borama's. Against Borama, Balbala follows Djibouti in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Djibouti cohort rather than Somalia, uses Africa/Djibouti instead of Africa/Mogadishu, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Borama's. Against Borama, Djibouti follows Djibouti in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Djibouti cohort rather than Somalia, uses Africa/Djibouti instead of Africa/Mogadishu, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Borama's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 601 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Borama'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 64021, the coordinate pair 9.9361 / 43.1828, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 333795 at 77.513 km bind Borama to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Borama's reference point is 9.9361° north and 43.1828° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Mogadishu is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Borama's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Borama's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Borama's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Borama, 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
Borama's closest other entries in this atlas are Jijiga (77.513 km), Balbala (180.975 km), Djibouti (183.84 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2023-11-30; 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.