  We present next-to-leading order perturbative QCD predictions for inclusive
dijet photoproduction in ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions (UPCs)
within the impact-parameter dependent equivalent photon approximation. Taking
into account the finite size of both the photon-emitting and the target
nucleus, we show that this process is sensitive to the transverse-plane
geometry of the UPC events. We show that this leads to a sizeable, 20-40%
effect for large values of the $z_\gamma$ variable in the dijet photoproduction
cross section in lead-lead UPCs at 5.02 TeV compared to the widely-used
pointlike approximation where the nuclear radius is accounted only as a sharp
cut-off in the photon flux calculation. This resolution of the spatial degrees
of freedom is a result of having high-transverse-momentum jets in the final
state, which at the large-$z_\gamma$ kinematics requires a highly energetic
photon in the initial state, thus biasing the collisions to small
impact-parameter ''near-encounter'' configurations. We further discuss the role
of the forward-neutron event-class selection in isolating the photonuclear
cross section in the nucleus-nucleus collisions, and employ the needed
electromagnetic breakup survival factor in our predictions.
