Ourmes
Ourmes is a town and commune in Guemar District, El Oued Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 5,900, up from 5,059 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 1.6%.Photo: Sourcenews, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: town in El Oued Province, Algeria
- Also known as: “Ourmas”, “Ourmés”, and “ورماس ⵓⵔⵎⴰⵙ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kouinine and Taghzout.
Kouinine
Town
Photo: Zinou2go, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kouinine is a town and commune in El Oued District, El Oued Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 10,076, up from 7,571 in 1998, with a population growth rate of 3.0%. Kouinine is situated 4½ km east of Ourmes.
Taghzout
Town
Taghzout is a town and commune in Guemar District, El Oued Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 13,934, up from 11,147 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 2.3%. Taghzout is situated 8 km north of Ourmes.
Guemar
Town
Photo: Badaking, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Guemar is a Saharan oasis town in Algeria near the Tunisian border, in the Oued Souf area of the El Oued Province, about 20 km north of El Oued. It includes a zaouia and a border post. Guemar is situated 10 km north of Ourmes.
Ourmes
- Categories: commune of Algeria and locality
- Location: Ourmes, Guemar, El Oued Province, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
33.40449° or 33° 24′ 16″ northLongitude
6.77903° or 6° 46′ 45″ eastElevation
72 metres (236 feet)Open location code
8F58CQ3H+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1565785970OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ourmes” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ورماس”
- Chinese: “Ourmas”
- Dutch: “Ourmes”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ورماس”
- French: “Ourmas”
- French: “Ourmes”
- Italian: “Ourmas”
- Kabyle: “Wermas”
- Malay: “Ourmas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ourmas”
- Persian: “ورماس”
- Portuguese: “Ourmes”
- Romanian: “Ourmas”
- South Azerbaijani: “ورماس”
- Spanish: “Ourmas”
- Vietnamese: “Ourmes”
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