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 ⵎⵄⴰⵙⴽⴰⵕ معسكر”, “Mascara, Algeria”, “Маскара (город)”, “أم العسكر”, and “أم عسكر”

Places of Interest

Highlights: African Unity Stadium.

Stadium
Photo: Sandervalya, CC BY 4.0.
The , is a multi-use in Mascara, .

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 , .

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
UN/LOCODE
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 Amharic to Welsh—“Mascara” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ማስካራ”
  • Arabic: “معسكر‎”
  • Arabic: “معسكر”
  • Armenian: “Մասկարա”
  • Asturian: “Mascara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maskara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Məskər”
  • Belarusian: “Маскара”
  • Bengali: “মাস্কারা, আলজেরিয়া”
  • Bengali: “মাস্কারা”
  • Bulgarian: “Маскара”
  • Catalan: “Mascara”
  • Cebuano: “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”
  • Hausa: “Mascara”
  • Hebrew: “מסקרה”
  • Hindi: “मस्कारा”
  • Hindi: “मास्करा”
  • Hungarian: “Mászkara”
  • Indonesian: “Mascara”
  • Irish: “Mascara”
  • Italian: “Mascara”
  • Japanese: “マスカラ”
  • Javanese: “Mascara”
  • Kabyle: “Mɛesker”
  • Kannada: “ಮಸ್ಕರಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Маскара”
  • Kirghiz: “Маскара”
  • Korean: “마스카라”
  • Latvian: “Maksara”
  • Lithuanian: “Maksara”
  • Lithuanian: “Maskara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mascara”
  • Malay: “Mascara, Algeria”
  • Malay: “Mascara”
  • Marathi: “मस्करा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mascara”
  • Northern Frisian: “Muaskar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mascara”
  • Norwegian: “Muaskar”
  • Oromo: “Mascara”
  • Ossetian: “Маскарæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਸਕਾਰਾ”
  • Persian: “مسکره”
  • Persian: “معسکر (شهر)”
  • Persian: “معسکر”
  • Polish: “Mu’askar”
  • Polish: “Muaskar”
  • Portuguese: “Mascara”
  • Pushto: “معسكر”
  • Romanian: “Mascara, Algeria”
  • Russian: “Маскара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maskara”
  • Sinhala: “මස්කරා”
  • Slovenian: “Mascara”
  • Somali: “Mascara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “معسکر (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “معسکر”
  • Spanish: “Muaskar”
  • Swahili: “Mascara, Algeria”
  • Swahili: “Mascara”
  • Swedish: “Muaskar”
  • Tajik: “Маскара”
  • Tamil: “மஸ்கேரா”
  • Tatar: “Маскара”
  • Tatar: “Мөгаскәр”
  • Telugu: “మస్కారా”
  • Thai: “มาส คา ร่า”
  • Turkish: “Muaskar”
  • Turkish: “Muasker”
  • Ukrainian: “Маскара”
  • Urdu: “معسکر، الجزائر”
  • Uzbek: “Mascara”
  • Venetian: “Mascara”
  • Vietnamese: “Mascara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mascara”
  • Welsh: “Mascara, Algeria”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Nouari Hamou and Sidi Bendjebbar.

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Highlights: غرفة الفلاحة and Jardin Pasteur.

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