1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Ethiopia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Jijiga—483,000, Africa/Addis_Ababa, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Jijiga is GeoNames ID 333795. Its recorded administrative path is Somali → Ethiopia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Jijiga 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 2023-02-13; 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, Jijiga ranks 1,188 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Ethiopia entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 240. Its 483,000 population value is 0.22 times the 2,171,500 median for the country cohort and 0.54 times the 902,588 regional median. Jijiga is rank 2 among the 2 selected Ethiopia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Jijiga'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.
Jijiga's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Borama at 77.513 km with 597,842 recorded people; Balbala at 248.232 km with 554,350 recorded people; Djibouti at 251.808 km with 626,512 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 174.295 km. Compared with Borama, Jijiga's recorded population is 0.81 times as large. Against Jijiga, Borama follows Awdal → Somalia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Somalia cohort rather than Ethiopia, uses Africa/Mogadishu instead of Africa/Addis_Ababa, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Jijiga's. Against Jijiga, Balbala follows Djibouti in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Djibouti cohort rather than Ethiopia, uses Africa/Djibouti instead of Africa/Addis_Ababa, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Jijiga's. Against Jijiga, Djibouti follows Djibouti in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Djibouti cohort rather than Ethiopia, uses Africa/Djibouti instead of Africa/Addis_Ababa, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Jijiga's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 601 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jijiga'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 333795, the coordinate pair 9.3500 / 42.8000, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 64021 at 77.513 km bind Jijiga to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Jijiga's reference point is 9.3500° north and 42.8000° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Addis_Ababa is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Jijiga's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Jijiga's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jijiga's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jijiga, 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
Jijiga's closest other entries in this atlas are Borama (77.513 km), Balbala (248.232 km), Djibouti (251.808 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-02-13; 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.