1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Saudi Arabia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Najran—505,652, Asia/Riyadh, 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 the southeast of Saudi Arabia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Najran is GeoNames ID 103630. Its recorded administrative path is Najran Region → Saudi Arabia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Najrān 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 2026-04-14; 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, Najran ranks 1,132 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Saudi Arabia entries it ranks 11; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 231. Its 505,652 population value is 0.53 times the 946,697 median for the country cohort and 0.56 times the 902,588 regional median. Najran sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Saudi Arabia entries. Najran'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.
Najran's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sanaa at 237.965 km with 1,937,451 recorded people; Al Hudaydah at 324.853 km with 734,699 recorded people; Ibb at 392.184 km with 771,514 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 154.219 km. Compared with Sanaa, Najran's recorded population is 0.26 times as large. Against Najran, Sanaa follows Amanat Alasimah → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Yemen cohort rather than Saudi Arabia, uses Asia/Aden instead of Asia/Riyadh, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Najran's. Against Najran, Al Hudaydah follows Al Hawak → Al Hudaydah → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Yemen cohort rather than Saudi Arabia, uses Asia/Aden instead of Asia/Riyadh, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Najran's. Against Najran, Ibb follows Al Mashannah → Ibb Governorate → Yemen in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Yemen cohort rather than Saudi Arabia, uses Asia/Aden instead of Asia/Riyadh, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Najran's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,047 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Najran'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 103630, the coordinate pair 17.4933 / 44.1277, country rank 11 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 71137 at 237.965 km bind Najran to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Najran's reference point is 17.4933° north and 44.1277° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Riyadh is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Najran's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Najran's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Najran's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Najran, 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
Najran's closest other entries in this atlas are Sanaa (237.965 km), Al Hudaydah (324.853 km), Ibb (392.184 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.