1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Morocco
Compare this sourced profile of Oujda, Morocco 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 Oujda—539,711, Africa/Casablanca, 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 Morocco.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Oujda is GeoNames ID 2540483. Its recorded administrative path is Oujda-Angad → Oriental → Morocco, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Oujda 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, Oujda ranks 1,041 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected Morocco entries it ranks 9; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 217. Its 539,711 population value is 0.54 times the 995,871 median for the country cohort and 0.60 times the 902,588 regional median. Oujda is rank 9 among the 9 selected Morocco entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Oujda'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.
Oujda's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Oran at 161.802 km with 803,329 recorded people; Fez at 292.8 km with 1,191,905 recorded people; Málaga at 320.654 km with 592,346 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 158.852 km. Compared with Oran, Oujda's recorded population is 0.67 times as large. Against Oujda, Oran follows Oran → Algeria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Algeria cohort rather than Morocco, uses Africa/Algiers instead of Africa/Casablanca, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Oujda's. Against Oujda, Fez follows Fes → Fes-Meknes → Morocco in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Morocco cohort, uses the shared Africa/Casablanca identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Oujda's. Against Oujda, 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 Morocco, uses Europe/Madrid instead of Africa/Casablanca, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Oujda's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 899 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Oujda'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 2540483, the coordinate pair 34.6814 / 1.9086, country rank 9 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 2485926 at 161.802 km bind Oujda to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Oujda's reference point is 34.6814° north and 1.9086° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Casablanca is shared by 9 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Oujda's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Oujda's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Oujda's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Oujda, 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
Oujda's closest other entries in this atlas are Oran (161.802 km), Fez (292.8 km), Málaga (320.654 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.