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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 135,000 residents
- Description: city and capital of El Oued Province, Algeria
- Also known as: “El Oued, Algeria” and “Oued Souf”
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. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 32,926, up from 26,535 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 2.2%.
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%.
El Oued
- Categories: commune of Algeria, oasis, and locality
- Location: El Oued Province, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.3612° or 33° 21′ 40″ northLongitude
6.8607° or 6° 51′ 38″ eastPopulation
135,000Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)IATA airport code
ELUUnited Nations Location Code
DZ ELUOpen location code
8F589V66+F7OpenStreetMap ID
node 262963217OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2497411Wikidata ID
Q1642636
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“El Oued” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “اﻟﻮادى”
- Arabic: “الوادي, الجزائر”
- Arabic: “الوادي”
- Arabic: “وادي سوف” (historical)
- Asturian: “El Oued”
- Basque: “El Oued”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Уэд”
- Bengali: “এল ওয়েড”
- Catalan: “El Oued”
- Catalan: “El-Oued”
- Catalan: “Oued Souf”
- Cebuano: “El Oued”
- Chinese: “El Oued”
- Chinese: “瓦德”
- Danish: “El Oued”
- Dutch: “El Oued”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الوادى”
- Esperanto: “El Ued”
- Finnish: “El Oued”
- French: “El Oued”
- French: “El-Oued”
- French: “Oued Souf” (historical)
- German: “Al-Wādī”
- German: “El Oued”
- Greek: “Ελ Ουέντ”
- Gujarati: “એલ ઓયડ”
- Hebrew: “אל ואד”
- Hebrew: “אל וואד”
- Hebrew: “אל-ואד”
- Hindi: “एल कैद”
- Indonesian: “El Oued”
- Italian: “El Oued”
- Japanese: “エル・ウェッド”
- Japanese: “エル・ウェド”
- Japanese: “エル＝ウェッド”
- Kabyle: “Lwad”
- Kannada: “ಎಲ್ ಔಡ್”
- Kazakh: “Élʹ-Wéd qalası”
- Kazakh: “Әл-Уед”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Уэд қаласы”
- Kazakh: “ەل-ۋەد قالاسى”
- Korean: “엘우에드”
- Korean: “엘웨드”
- Latin: “Potamopolis”
- Latvian: “Ueda”
- Lithuanian: “El Uedas”
- Lithuanian: “Oued”
- Lithuanian: “Uedas”
- Lithuanian: “Wad”
- Malay: “El Oued”
- Marathi: “अल ओएड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Oued”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Oued”
- Norwegian: “El Oued”
- Persian: “الوادی، الجزایر”
- Polish: “Al-Wad”
- Polish: “Al-Wadi”
- Polish: “El Oued”
- Portuguese: “El Oued”
- Portuguese: “Uede”
- Romanian: “El Oued”
- Russian: “Эль-Уэд”
- Scots: “El Oued”
- Serbian: “El Oued”
- Serbian: “Ел Уед”
- Serbian: “Ел Ујед”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Ujed”
- Shona: “El Oued”
- Sinhala: “අල් කියුඩ්”
- Spanish: “El Oued”
- Swahili: “El Oued”
- Swedish: “El Oued”
- Swedish: “Oued souf”
- Tamil: “எல் ஒவுத்”
- Telugu: “ఎల్ ఒయెడ్”
- Thai: “แอล ควอร์”
- Turkish: “El Qued”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Уед”
- Urdu: “الوادی”
- Vietnamese: “El Oued”
- Waray (Philippines): “El Oued”
- Western Panjabi: “الوادی”
- Western Panjabi: “وادی”
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