1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Algeria
Compare this sourced profile of Oran, Algeria 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 Oran—803,329, Africa/Algiers, 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: coastal city in Oran Province, Algeria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Oran is GeoNames ID 2485926. Its recorded administrative path is Oran → Algeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Oran 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, Oran ranks 691 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Algeria entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 136. Its 803,329 population value is 0.51 times the 1,583,780 median for the country cohort and 0.89 times the 902,588 regional median. Oran is rank 2 among the 2 selected Algeria entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Oran'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.
Oran's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Oujda at 161.802 km with 539,711 recorded people; Algiers at 353.202 km with 2,364,230 recorded people; Málaga at 357.987 km with 592,346 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 196.185 km. Compared with Oujda, Oran's recorded population is 1.49 times as large. Against Oran, Oujda follows Oujda-Angad → Oriental → Morocco in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Morocco cohort rather than Algeria, uses Africa/Casablanca instead of Africa/Algiers, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Oran's. Against Oran, Algiers follows Algiers → Algeria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Algeria cohort, uses the shared Africa/Algiers identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Oran's. Against Oran, Málaga follows Provincia de Malaga → Andalusia → Spain in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Spain cohort rather than Algeria, uses Europe/Madrid instead of Africa/Algiers, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Oran's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 899 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Oran'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 2485926, the coordinate pair 35.6991 / 0.6359, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2540483 at 161.802 km bind Oran to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Oran's reference point is 35.6991° north and 0.6359° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Algiers is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Oran's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Oran's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Oran's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Oran, 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
Oran's closest other entries in this atlas are Oujda (161.802 km), Algiers (353.202 km), Málaga (357.987 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.