Mascara

Mascara, also spelled Maskara, is the capital city of in . It has 150,000 inhabitants. It was founded in the 10th century by the Banu Ifran, and is famous for being the hometown of Emir Abd al-Qadir, a leader of the Algerian resistance to early French colonial rule in the 19th century.
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  • Type: City with 109,000 residents
  • Description: city in Mascara Province, Algeria
  • Also known as: Mascara, Algeria

Places of Interest

Highlights include African Unity Stadium.

Stadium
The , is a multi-use in Mascara, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of GC Mascara. The stadium holds 22,000 people.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mamounia and El Keurt.

Town
is a town and commune in , .

Village
is a town and commune in , . According to the 1998 census it has a population of 3,536.

Mascara

Latitude
35.3941° or 35° 23′ 39″ north
Longitude
0.138° or 0° 8′ 17″ east
Population
109,000
Elevation
590 metres (1,936 feet)
IATA airport code
MUW
United Nations Location Code
DZ MUW
Open location code
8F7294VQ+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5300225730
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2490098
Wiki­data ID
Q545707
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Mascara” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: أم العسكر
  • Arabic: أم عسكر
  • Arabic: معسكر‎
  • Arabic: معسكر
  • Armenian: Մասկարա
  • Asturian: Mascara
  • Azerbaijani: Məskər
  • Belarusian: Маскара
  • Bengali: মাস্কারা, আলজেরিয়া
  • Bengali: মাস্কারা
  • Bulgarian: Маскара
  • Catalan: Mascara
  • Cebuano: Mascara
  • Chinese: Mascara
  • Chinese: 穆阿斯凯尔
  • Chinese: 穆阿斯凱爾
  • Czech: Mascara
  • Danish: Mascara
  • Dutch: Mascara
  • Egyptian Arabic: معسكر
  • Esperanto: Muaskar
  • Finnish: Mascara
  • French: Mascara
  • German: Muaskar
  • Greek: Μασκάρα
  • Greek: Μάσκαρα
  • Gujarati: મસ્કરા
  • Hebrew: מסקרה
  • Hindi: मस्कारा
  • Hungarian: Mászkara
  • Indonesian: Mascara
  • Irish: Mascara
  • Italian: Mascara
  • Japanese: マスカラ
  • Kabyle: Mɛesker
  • Kannada: ಮಸ್ಕರಾ
  • Korean: 마스카라
  • Latvian: Maksara
  • Lithuanian: Maksara
  • Lithuanian: Maskara
  • Luxembourgish: Mascara
  • Malay: Mascara, Algeria
  • Marathi: मस्करा
  • Min Nan Chinese: Mascara
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Mascara
  • Norwegian: Muaskar
  • Ossetian: Маскарæ
  • Persian: معسکر (شهر)
  • Persian: معسکر
  • Polish: Mu’askar
  • Polish: Muaskar
  • Portuguese: Mascara
  • Romanian: Mascara, Algeria
  • Romanian: Mascara
  • Russian: Маскара (город)
  • Russian: Маскара
  • Serbo-Croatian: Maskara
  • Sinhala: මස්කරා
  • Slovenian: Mascara
  • South Azerbaijani: معسکر (شهر)
  • South Azerbaijani: معسکر
  • Spanish: Muaskar
  • Swahili: Mascara, Algeria
  • Swedish: Muaskar
  • Tamil: மஸ்கேரா
  • Tatar: Мөгаскәр
  • Telugu: మస్కారా
  • Thai: มาส คา ร่า
  • Turkish: Muaskar
  • Turkish: Muasker
  • Ukrainian: Маскара
  • Urdu: معسکر، الجزائر
  • Venetian: Mascara
  • Vietnamese: Mascara
  • Waray (Philippines): Mascara
  • Welsh: Mascara, Algeria
  • Welsh: Mascara

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