Mascara
Mascara, also spelled Maskara, is the capital city of Mascara Province in Algeria. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
African Unity Stadium
Stadium
The African Unity Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Mascara, Algeria. 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.
El Keurt
Village
El Keurt is a town and commune in Mascara Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 3,536.
Mascara
- Categories: commune of Algeria, big city, and locality
- Location: Mascara Province, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.3941° or 35° 23′ 39″ northLongitude
0.138° or 0° 8′ 17″ eastPopulation
109,000Elevation
590 metres (1,936 feet)IATA airport code
MUWUnited Nations Location Code
DZ MUWOpen location code
8F7294VQ+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 5300225730OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2490098Wikidata ID
Q545707
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Satellite Map
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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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