Souk Ahras
Souk Ahras is a municipality in Algeria. It is the capital of Souk Ahras Province. The Numidian city of Thagaste, on whose ruins Souk Ahras was built, was the birthplace of Augustine of Hippo and a center of Berber culture.
- Type: City with 155,000 residents
- Description: municipality of Algeria
- Also known as: “Thagaste” and “سوق أهراس ⵙⵓⵇ ⴰⵀⵔⴰⵙ”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Souk Ahras.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zaarouria.
Souk Ahras
- Categories: commune of Algeria and locality
- Location: Souk Ahras Province, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
36.2829° or 36° 16′ 58″ north
Longitude
7.9538° or 7° 57′ 14″ east
Population
155,000
Elevation
671 metres (2,201 feet)
Open location code
8F897XM3+4G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Souk Ahras” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوق أهراس”
- Arabic: “سوق اهراس”
- Armenian: “Սուկ Ահրաս”
- Azerbaijani: “Suk-Əhras”
- Belarusian: “Сук Аграс”
- Belarusian: “Сук-Аграс”
- Belarusian: “Сук-Ахрас”
- Bengali: “সোকা হাস”
- Breton: “Souk Ahras”
- Catalan: “Souk Ahras”
- Cebuano: “Souk Ahras (kapital sa lalawigan sa Arhelya)”
- Cebuano: “Souk Ahras”
- Chinese: “Souk Ahras”
- Chinese: “苏格艾赫拉斯”
- Chinese: “蘇格艾赫拉斯”
- Danish: “Souk Ahras”
- Dutch: “Souk Ahras”
- Dutch: “Thagaste”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوق اهراس”
- Esperanto: “Souk Ahras”
- Finnish: “Souk Ahras”
- French: “Djebbar Amor”
- French: “Souk Ahras”
- French: “Souk-ahras”
- German: “Souk Ahras”
- German: “Souk-Ahras”
- German: “Souq Ahras”
- German: “Suq Ahras”
- German: “Tagaste”
- German: “Thagaste”
- Greek: “Θαγάστη”
- Greek: “Σουκ Αχράς”
- Gujarati: “સૌક એહરસ”
- Hebrew: “סוק אהראס”
- Hebrew: “סוק אהרס”
- Hebrew: “סוק אחרס”
- Hindi: “सूक़ अहरास”
- Hungarian: “Szúk Ahrász”
- Indonesian: “Souk Ahras”
- Italian: “Souk Ahras”
- Japanese: “スーク・アフラース”
- Japanese: “スーク＝アラス”
- Kabyle: “Suq Ahras”
- Kabyle: “Tagast”
- Kannada: “ಸೌಕ್ ಅಹ್ರಾಸ್”
- Korean: “수크아라스”
- Latin: “Tagaste”
- Latvian: “Soukarasa”
- Lithuanian: “Souk Ahras”
- Lithuanian: “Suk Ahrasas”
- Lithuanian: “Suq Ahras”
- Low German: “Souq Ahras”
- Low German: “Thagaste”
- Malay: “Souk Ahras”
- Marathi: “सौक अह्रस”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Souk Ahras”
- Northern Frisian: “Souk Ahras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Souk Ahras”
- Norwegian: “Souk Ahras”
- Persian: “سوق اهراس، الجزایر”
- Persian: “سوق اهراس”
- Polish: “Souk Ahras”
- Polish: “Suk Ahras”
- Portuguese: “Souk Ahras”
- Romanian: “Souk Ahras”
- Romanian: “Souk-Ahras”
- Russian: “Сук-Ахрас”
- Rusyn: “Сук Арас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Suk Ahras”
- Sinhala: “සොඋක් අහ්රස්”
- Slovenian: “Souk Ahras”
- Spanish: “Souk Ahras”
- Swahili: “Souk Ahras”
- Swedish: “Souk Ahras”
- Swedish: “Tagaste”
- Swedish: “Thagaste”
- Tamil: “சௌக் அஹ்ரஸ்”
- Telugu: “సూక్ అహాస్”
- Thai: “เซาค์ อัคราส”
- Turkish: “Souk Ahras”
- Ukrainian: “Сук-Аграс”
- Urdu: “سوق اہراس”
- Vietnamese: “Souk Ahras”
- Waray (Philippines): “Souk Ahras”
- Welsh: “Souk Ahras”
- Welsh: “Souk-Ahras”
- Welsh: “Tagaste”
- Western Panjabi: “سوق اہراس”
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