1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United Arab Emirates
Compare this sourced profile of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 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 Sharjah—1,800,000, Asia/Dubai, 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 United Arab Emirates.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sharjah is GeoNames ID 292672. Its recorded administrative path is Sharjah → United Arab Emirates, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Sharjah 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, Sharjah ranks 241 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected United Arab Emirates entries it ranks 3; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 55. Its 1,800,000 population value is 1.00 times the 1,800,000 median for the country cohort and 1.99 times the 902,588 regional median. Sharjah is rank 3 among the 5 selected United Arab Emirates entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Sharjah's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Sharjah's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ajman at 10.059 km with 490,035 recorded people; Dubai at 30.391 km with 3,790,000 recorded people; Al Ain City at 131.822 km with 846,747 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 121.763 km. Compared with Ajman, Sharjah's recorded population is 3.67 times as large. Against Sharjah, Ajman follows Ajman → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Arab Emirates cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dubai identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Sharjah's. Against Sharjah, Dubai follows Dubai → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Arab Emirates cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dubai identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Sharjah's. Against Sharjah, Al Ain City follows Al Ain Municipality → Abu Dhabi → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United Arab Emirates cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dubai identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Sharjah's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 152 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sharjah's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 292672, the coordinate pair 25.3342 / 55.4122, country rank 3 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 292932 at 10.059 km bind Sharjah to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sharjah's reference point is 25.3342° north and 55.4122° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Dubai is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Sharjah's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Sharjah's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sharjah's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sharjah, 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
Sharjah's closest other entries in this atlas are Ajman (10.059 km), Dubai (30.391 km), Al Ain City (131.822 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.