Bab Ezzouar

Bab Ezzouar is a suburb of the city of in northern . It is one of Algiers fastest growing municipalities and has seen many hotels and commercial malls being raised in the area.
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  • Type: City with 92,000 residents
  • Description: suburb of the city of Algiers in northern Algeria
  • Also known as: Bab-Ezzouar” and “Le Retour de la Chasse

Places of Interest

Highlights include Houari Boumediene Airport and University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene.

Aerodrome
Houari Boumediene International Airport, also known as Algiers Airport or Algiers International Airport, is the main serving , the capital of .

University
The University of Science and Technology – Houari Boumediene is a university located in the town of Bab-Ezzouar 15 kilometres from , . The university was designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and was inaugurated in 1974.

Shopping center
The Centre Commercial Bab Ezzouar is a in , . The construction of the Centre Commercial Bab Ezzouar was in charge of the Swiss bank Valartis.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bordj El Kiffan and Dar El Beïda.

Town
is a suburb of the city of in northern . It is in the eastern section of the city, near Matares Beach. Named Fort de l'Eau under French rule prior to 1962, used to be a famous beach resort within the Bay of Algiers, complete with luxury hotels and a casino.

Suburb
is a suburb of , . It is the seat of the district with the same name. During French colonial times, it was officially called by its French name Maison Blanche, which meant the same thing as its current Arabic name: white house.

Suburb
Mohamadia is a suburb of the city of in northern .

Bab Ezzouar

Latitude
36.722° or 36° 43′ 19″ north
Longitude
3.1856° or 3° 11′ 8″ east
Population
92,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DZ EZZ
Open location code
8F85P5CP+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288037571
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2505854
Wiki­data ID
Q59579
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Bab Ezzouar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: باب الزوار
  • Arabic: بلديه باب الزوار
  • Catalan: Bab Ezzouar
  • Cebuano: Bab Ezzouar
  • Chinese: Bab Ezzouar
  • Chinese: 巴卜埃祖阿尔
  • Chinese: 巴布埃祖瓦尔
  • Chinese: 巴布艾祖瓦爾
  • Dutch: Bab Ezzouar
  • Egyptian Arabic: باب الزوار
  • Esperanto: Bab Ezuar
  • French: Bab Ezzouar
  • French: Bab-Ezzouar
  • French: Beb ezzouar
  • German: Bab Azwâr
  • German: Bab Ezzouar
  • Hebrew: באב א-זוואר
  • Italian: Bab Ezzouar
  • Italian: باب الزوار
  • Kabyle: Bab Zzewwar
  • Lithuanian: Bab Azwar
  • Lithuanian: Bab Ezuaras
  • Lithuanian: Bab Ezzouar
  • Malay: Bab Ezzouar
  • Min Nan Chinese: Bab Ezzouar
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Bab Ezzouar
  • Norwegian: Bab Ezzouar
  • Occitan (post 1500): Bab Ezzouar
  • Persian: باب‌الزوار، الجزایر
  • Persian: باب‌الزوار
  • Polish: Bab az-Zuwar
  • Polish: Bab Ezzouar
  • Portuguese: Bab Ezzouar
  • Romanian: Bab Ezzouar
  • Serbo-Croatian: Bab Ezuar
  • South Azerbaijani: باب‌الزوار، الجزاییر
  • Spanish: Bab Ezzouar
  • Swedish: Bab Ezzouar
  • Turkish: Babü’z-Zuvar
  • Urdu: باب الزوار
  • Vietnamese: Bab Ezzouar
  • Waray (Philippines): Bab Ezzouar

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Bab Ezzouar new town hall and Multiservice.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bab Ezzouar”. Photo: Habib kaki, CC BY-SA 4.0.