Chlef
Chlef is the capital of Chlef Province, Algeria. Located in the north of Algeria, 200 kilometres west of the capital, Algiers, it was founded in 1843, as Orléansville, on the ruins of Roman Castellum Tingitanum.
- City with 179,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 116 metres (381 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code CFK
- …was formerly known as “al-Aṣnām”
- Description: city in Algeria
- Also known as“aš-Šalif”“ash-Shalif”“Chlef ⵛⵍⴻⴼ الشلف”“Ech Chlef”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mohamed Boumezrag Stadium and Gare de Chlef.
Mohamed Boumezrag Stadium
Stadium
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oum Drou.
Chlef
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Latitude
36.1649° or 36° 9′ 54″ north
Longitude
1.3316° or 1° 19′ 54″ east
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Chlef” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ክለፍ”
- Arabic: “أورليانفيل” (historical)
- Arabic: “الأصنام” (historical)
- Arabic: “الشلف”
- Arabic: “شلف”
- Arabic: “كاستيليوم تانجيتانيوم” (historical)
- Arabic: “كستلم تنجيتانم” (historical)
- Armenian: “Շլեֆ”
- Asturian: “Chlef”
- Azerbaijani: “Hlef”
- Basque: “Chlef”
- Belarusian: “Шлеф”
- Belarusian: “Эш-Шэліф”
- Bengali: “চেফ”
- Bengali: “ছলেফ”
- Bulgarian: “Шлеф”
- Catalan: “Chlef”
- Cebuano: “Chlef”
- Chinese: “謝利夫”
- Chinese: “謝里夫”
- Chinese: “谢利夫”
- Chinese: “谢里夫”
- Danish: “Al-Asnam”
- Danish: “Chlef”
- Danish: “Orléansville”
- Dutch: “Chlef”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الشلف”
- Esperanto: “Chlef”
- Esperanto: “Ŝlef”
- Finnish: “Chlef”
- French: “Chlef”
- French: “El Asnam”
- French: “El-Asnam”
- French: “Orléansville”
- Galician: “Chlef”
- German: “asch-Schalif”
- German: “Asch-Schalif”
- German: “Chlef”
- German: “Ech Cheliff”
- German: “Ech-Cheliff”
- German: “El Asnam”
- German: “El-Asnam”
- German: “Orléansville”
- German: “Schalif”
- German: “al-Asnām” (historical)
- Greek: “Ελ-Ασνάμ”
- Greek: “Ορλεανβίλ”
- Greek: “Σλεφ”
- Gujarati: “ક્લેફ”
- Hausa: “Chlef”
- Hebrew: “שלאף”
- Hebrew: “שלף”
- Hindi: “छलेफ”
- Hindi: “श्लेफ़”
- Hindi: “हलेफ”
- Indonesian: “Chlef”
- Irish: “Chlef”
- Italian: “Chlef”
- Italian: “Orléansville”
- Japanese: “シュレフ”
- Javanese: “Chlef”
- Kabyle: “Cclef”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಲೆಫ್”
- Kazakh: “Хлеф”
- Kirghiz: “Хлеф”
- Korean: “슐레프”
- Latin: “Castellum Tingitanum”
- Latvian: “Šelīfa”
- Lithuanian: “Asnamas”
- Lithuanian: “Chlef”
- Lithuanian: “Orleanvilis”
- Lithuanian: “Šalifas”
- Lithuanian: “Šelifas”
- Lithuanian: “Šlefas”
- Lithuanian: “Tingitanum”
- Malay: “Chlef”
- Marathi: “क्लेफ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chlef”
- Moksha: “Шлэф”
- Northern Frisian: “Chlef”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chlef”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ech Cheliff”
- Norwegian: “Ech Cheliff”
- Oromo: “Chlef”
- Panjabi: “ਚਲੇਫ”
- Persian: “شلف”
- Polish: “Asz-Szalif”
- Polish: “Chlef”
- Polish: “Szalif”
- Portuguese: “Chlef”
- Pushto: “شلف”
- Romanian: “Chlef”
- Russian: “Шелиф”
- Russian: “Шлеф”
- Russian: “Эш-Шелифф”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šlef”
- Sinhala: “චෙල්ෆ්”
- Slovenian: “Chlef”
- Somali: “Chlef”
- South Azerbaijani: “شلف”
- Spanish: “Chlef”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵛⵛⵍⴼ”
- Swahili: “Chlef”
- Swedish: “Al-Asnam”
- Swedish: “Chlef”
- Swedish: “Ech Cheliff”
- Swedish: “Orleansville”
- Swedish: “Orléansville”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Chlef”
- Tajik: “Хлеф”
- Tamil: “கிலேபி”
- Tatar: “Хлеф”
- Telugu: “చెఫ్”
- Thai: “เชฟ”
- Turkish: “Chlef”
- Ukrainian: “Шлеф”
- Urdu: “شلف”
- Uzbek: “Ash-Shalif”
- Uzbek: “Chlef”
- Venetian: “Chlef”
- Vietnamese: “Chlef”
- Walloon: “Chlef”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chlef”
- Western Panjabi: “شلف”
- Yue Chinese: “謝利夫”
- Zulu: “Chlef”
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