El Oued
El Oued, Souf or Oued Souf is a city, and the capital of El Oued Province, in Algeria. The oasis town is watered by an underground river, hence its name is El Oued which enables date palm cultivation and the rare use of brick construction for housing.
- Type: City with 135,000 residents
- Description: city and capital of El Oued Province, Algeria
- Also known as: “Al-Wad”, “El Oued, Algeria”, “El Uedas”, “El-Oued”, “Oued”, “Oued souf”, “Wad”, “Ел Уед”, “אל וואד”, “ⵍⵡⴰⴷ”, and “エル・ウェド”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bayadha and Kouinine.
Bayadha
Town
Bayadha is a town and commune, coextensive with Bayadha District, in El Oued Province, Algeria.
El Oued
- Categories: commune of Algeria, oasis, and locality
- Location: El Oued Province, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
33.3612° or 33° 21′ 40″ north
Longitude
6.8607° or 6° 51′ 38″ east
Population
135,000
Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)
IATA airport code
ELU
UN/LOCODE
DZ ELU
Open location code
8F589V66+F7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“El Oued” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኤል ዋድ”
- Arabic: “اﻟﻮادى”
- Arabic: “الوادي, الجزائر”
- Arabic: “الوادي”
- Arabic: “وادي سوف” (historical)
- Asturian: “El Oued”
- Azerbaijani: “El Oued”
- Basque: “El Oued”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Уэд”
- Bengali: “এল ওয়েড”
- Catalan: “El Oued”
- Cebuano: “El Oued”
- Chinese: “瓦德”
- Czech: “El-Véd”
- Danish: “El Oued”
- Dutch: “El Oued”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الوادى”
- Esperanto: “El Ued”
- Finnish: “El Oued”
- French: “El Oued”
- French: “Oued Souf” (historical)
- German: “Al-Wādī”
- German: “El Oued”
- Greek: “Ελ Ουέντ”
- Gujarati: “એલ ઓયડ”
- Hausa: “El Oued”
- Hebrew: “אל ואד”
- Hebrew: “אל-ואד”
- Hindi: “अल वादी”
- Hindi: “अल वेद”
- Indonesian: “El Oued”
- Italian: “El Oued”
- Japanese: “エル・ウェッド”
- Japanese: “エル・ウエド”
- Japanese: “エル＝ウェッド”
- Javanese: “El Oued”
- Kabyle: “Lwad”
- Kannada: “ಎಲ್ ಔಡ್”
- Kazakh: “Élʹ-Wéd qalası”
- Kazakh: “Әл-Уед”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Уэд қаласы”
- Kazakh: “ەل-ۋەد قالاسى”
- Kirghiz: “Эль-Уэд”
- Korean: “엘우에드”
- Korean: “엘웨드”
- Latin: “Potamopolis”
- Latvian: “Ueda”
- Lithuanian: “Uedas”
- Malay: “El Oued”
- Marathi: “अल ओएड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Oued”
- Northern Frisian: “El Oued”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Oued”
- Norwegian: “El Oued”
- Oromo: “El Oued”
- Panjabi: “ਅਲ ਵਾਡੀ”
- Persian: “الوادی، الجزایر”
- Persian: “الوادی”
- Polish: “Al-Wadi”
- Portuguese: “El Oued”
- Portuguese: “Uede”
- Pushto: “الوادی”
- Romanian: “El Oued”
- Russian: “Эль-Уэд”
- Scots: “El Oued”
- Serbian: “Ел Ујед”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Ujed”
- Shona: “El Oued”
- Sinhala: “අල් කියුඩ්”
- Slovenian: “El Oued”
- Somali: “El Oued”
- Spanish: “El Oued”
- Swahili: “El Oued”
- Swedish: “El Oued”
- Tajik: “Эль-Уэд”
- Tamil: “எல் ஒவுத்”
- Tatar: “Эль-Уэд”
- Telugu: “ఎల్ ఒయెడ్”
- Thai: “แอล ควอร์”
- Turkish: “El Oued”
- Turkish: “El Qued”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Уед”
- Urdu: “الوادی”
- Uzbek: “El Oued”
- Vietnamese: “El Oued”
- Waray (Philippines): “El Oued”
- Western Panjabi: “الوادی”
- Western Panjabi: “وادی”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Doudi and Quartier El Djaouhara.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Place des Jeunes;Place des jeneusse and Direction du Tourisme de la Wilaya d’El Oued.
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