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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 179,000 residents
- Description: city in Algeria
- Also known as: “aš-Šalif”, “ash-Shalif”, and “Ech Chlef”
- Historically known as: “al-Aṣnām”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mohamed Boumezrag Stadium and Gare de Chlef.
Mohamed Boumezrag Stadium
Stadium
Mohamed Boumezrag Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Chlef, Algeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of ASO Chlef. The stadium holds 18,000 people.
Gare de Chlef
Railway station
Photo: Knight of honor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gare de Chlef is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oum Drou.
Oum Drou
Town
Oum Drou is a town and commune in Chlef Province, Algeria. The 1998 census recorded it as having a population of 17,314.
Chlef
- Categories: commune of Algeria, big city, and locality
- Location: Chlef Province, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.1646° or 36° 9′ 53″ northLongitude
1.3315° or 1° 19′ 53″ eastPopulation
179,000Elevation
116 metres (381 feet)Open location code
8F83587J+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 299680100OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2498611Wikidata ID
Q849561
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Chlef” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أورليانفيل” (historical)
- Arabic: “الأصنام” (historical)
- Arabic: “الشلف”
- Arabic: “شلف”
- Arabic: “كاستيليوم تانجيتانيوم” (historical)
- Arabic: “كستلم تنجيتانم” (historical)
- Armenian: “Շլեֆ”
- Asturian: “Chlef”
- Basque: “Chlef”
- Belarusian: “Шлеф”
- Belarusian: “Эш-Шэліф”
- Bengali: “চেফ”
- Bulgarian: “Шлеф”
- Catalan: “Chlef”
- Cebuano: “Chlef”
- Chinese: “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: “श्लेफ”
- Indonesian: “Chlef”
- Irish: “Chlef”
- Italian: “Chlef”
- Italian: “Orléansville”
- Japanese: “シュレフ”
- Kabyle: “Cclef”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಲೆಫ್”
- 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”
- Persian: “شلف”
- Polish: “Asz-Szalif”
- Polish: “Chlef”
- Polish: “Szalif”
- Portuguese: “Chlef”
- Romanian: “Chlef”
- Russian: “Шелиф”
- Russian: “Шлеф”
- Russian: “Эш-Шелифф”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šlef”
- Sinhala: “චෙල්ෆ්”
- Slovenian: “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”
- Tamil: “கிலேபி”
- Telugu: “చెఫ్”
- Thai: “เชฟ”
- Turkish: “Chlef”
- Ukrainian: “Шлеф”
- Urdu: “شلف”
- Uzbek: “Ash-Shalif”
- Venetian: “Chlef”
- Vietnamese: “Chlef”
- Walloon: “Chlef”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chlef”
- Western Panjabi: “شلف”
- Yue Chinese: “謝利夫”
- Zulu: “Chlef”
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