The territory of Tor Cervara includes the urban zone 5F Tor Cervara and the eastern part of the urban zone 5D Tiburtino Sud (namely, the area called Colli Aniene).
Northward, Tor Cervara borders with Quartiere Ponte Mammolo (Q. XXIX), from which is separated by the stretch of the river Aniene between Via Tiburtina and Via di Tor Cervara, and by Via di Tor Cervara itself; and also borders with Quartiere San Basilio (Q. XXX), whose border is marked by the stretch of Via Tiburtina between Via di Tor Cervara and the GRA.
Eastward, Tor Cervara borders with Zona Settecamini (Z. VI), whose border is marked by the stretch of the GRA between Via Tiburtina and the river Aniene. To the east, Tor Cervara also shares a short border with Zona Acqua Vergine (Z. IX), which is outlined by the stretch of the GRA between the river Aniene and the A24.
Southward, the zone borders with Zona Tor Sapienza (Z. VIII), from which is separated by the stretch of the A24 between the GRA and Viale Palmiro Togliatti.
Westward, Tor Cervara borders with Quartiere Collatino (Q. XXII), from which is separated by the stretch of Viale Palmiro Togliatti between the A24 and Via Tiburtina.
Odonyms of the zone mainly refer to Italian politicians (in the area of Colli Aniene), artists and characters of Virgil's poems. In the northern part of the zone, near the border with Quartiere San Basilio, a few streets are named after towns of Lazio and local industrialists. Odonyms of the zone can be categorized as follows:
- Artists, e.g. Via Matteo Civitali, Via Giacomo del Duca, Via Jacopo della Quercia, Via Mario Schifano, Via Renzo Vespignani, Via Alberto Ziveri;
- Industrialists, e.g. Via Giulio Vincenzo Bona, Via dei Luxardo, Via Donato Passaquindici, Via Carlo Pesenti;
- Local toponyms, e.g. Via del Casale Caletto, Via di Cervara, Piazza and Via della Cervelletta, Via dei Laghi Sportivi, Via di Tor Cervara, Via di Vannina;
- Politicians, e.g. Via Giorgio Amendola, Via Angelica Balabanoff, Viale Battista Bardanzellu, Via Francesco Compagna, Viale Ettore Franceschetti, Via Fausto Gullo, Piazza Camillo Loriedo, Via Meuccio Ruini, Via Amedeo Sommovigo, Via Giuseppe Spataro, Viale Palmiro Togliatti, Largo Ezio Vanoni;
- Towns of Lazio, e.g. Via Cineto Romano, Via Gerano, Via Licenza, Via Roccagiovine, Via Tivoli;
- Virgilian characters and poems, e.g. Via Alete, Via Antenore, Largo Cassandra, Via Cloanto, Via Creusa, Via Dafni, Via Dameta, Largo Didone, Via dell'Eneide, Via delle Georgiche, Via Lauso, Via Melibeo.
