Algeria
Central Algeria
Algiers Province

Algiers

Algiers is the capital and largest city of , set along the Mediterranean coast. Known for its striking French colonial architecture, the city reveals layers of history shaped by Ottoman rule, French colonialism and Algerian independence.
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  • Type: City with 3,420,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Algeria
  • Also known as: “Al Djazâir”, “Al Jazair”, “Al-jezair”, and “El Djazaïr”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Martyrs Memorial and National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art.

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The Maqam Echahid is a concrete monument commemorating the Algerian War. The monument was opened on July 5th 1982, on the 20th anniversary of 's independence.

Museum
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The is an art museum in Algiers, .

Museum
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The National Museum of Fine Arts in Algiers is one of the largest art museums in . Opened to the public since 5 May 1930, it is located in the Hamma district, next to the Hamma test garden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belouizdad and Sidi M’Hamed.

Town
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Mohamed is a quarter of Algiers, Algeria in . The quarter was formerly known as Belcourt during the French colonisation period.

Town
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Sidi M'Hamed is a municipality in Algiers Province, Algeria; formerly known as Mustapha. It is the seat of the district of the same name. Its municipal code is 1602 and postal code is 16014 and it has a population of 90,455 as of the 1998 census, which gives it 15 seats in the PMA.

Town
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is a municipality in , . It is administratively part of Sidi M'Hamed district, and it has a population of 96,329 as of the 1998 census, which gives it 15 seats in the PMA.

Algiers

Latitude
36.7529° or 36° 45′ 11″ north
Longitude
3.0559° or 3° 3′ 21″ east
Population
3,420,000
Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)
IATA airport code
ALG
United Nations Location Code
DZ ALG
Open location code
8F85Q334+59
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299617915
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2507480
Wiki­data ID
Q3561
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Algiers” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Алжир (ақалақь)”
  • Abkhazian: “Алжир”
  • Adyghe: “Алжир”
  • Afrikaans: “Algiers”
  • Albanian: “Algier”
  • Albanian: “Algjer”
  • Algerian Arabic: “آلجي”
  • Algerian Arabic: “دْزَايَر”
  • Amharic: “አልጀርስ”
  • Arabic: “الجزائر (مدينة)”
  • Arabic: “الجزائر العاصمة”
  • Arabic: “الجزائر”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الجزائر”
  • Aragonese: “Alcher”
  • Armenian: “Ալժիր”
  • Arpitan: “Alg·èr”
  • Asturian: “Arxel”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əlcəzair”
  • Balinese: “Aljir”
  • Bambara: “Alger”
  • Bashkir: “Алжир (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Алжир”
  • Basque: “Aljer”
  • Belarusian: “Алжыр”
  • Belarusian: “Альжыр”
  • Bengali: “আলজিয়ার্স”
  • Bosnian: “Alžir”
  • Breton: “Aljer”
  • Bulgarian: “Алжир”
  • Burmese: “အယ်လဂျီးယားမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Alger”
  • Cebuano: “Algiers”
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: “ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻ”
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: “ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ”
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: “ⵍⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔ”
  • Central Bikol: “Algiers”
  • Central Kurdish: “جەزائیر”
  • Chechen: “Алжазаира”
  • Chechen: “Алжир”
  • Chinese: “Alger”
  • Chinese: “阿尔及尔”
  • Chinese: “阿爾及爾/阿尔及尔”
  • Chinese: “阿爾及爾”
  • Chuvash: “Алжир”
  • Corsican: “Algeri”
  • Croatian: “Alžir”
  • Czech: “Alžír”
  • Danish: “Algier”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cezayir”
  • Dutch: “Algiers”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الجزاير”
  • Esperanto: “Alĝero”
  • Estonian: “Alžiir”
  • Extremaduran: “Argel”
  • Faroese: “Alger”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Algiers”
  • Finnish: “Alger”
  • French: “Alger”
  • Galician: “Alxer”
  • Georgian: “ალჟირი”
  • Georgian: “მარკეტი”
  • German: “Algier”
  • Greek: “Αλγέρι”
  • Gujarati: “અલ્જીયર્સ”
  • Haitian: “Alje”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Algiers”
  • Hausa: “Aljir”
  • Hebrew: “אלג’יר”
  • Hebrew: “אלגיר”
  • Hindi: “अल्जियर्ज़”
  • Hindi: “अल्जियर्स”
  • Hindi: “अल्जीयर्स”
  • Hindi: “आल्जेर”
  • Hungarian: “Algír”
  • Icelandic: “Algeirsborg”
  • Ido: “Aljer”
  • Iloko: “Arhel”
  • Inari Sami: “Alger”
  • Indonesian: “Aljir”
  • Interlingua: “Alger”
  • Interlingue: “Alger”
  • Irish: “Cathair na hAilgéire”
  • Italian: “Algeri”
  • Japanese: “アルジェ”
  • Javanese: “Aljir”
  • Kabiyè: “Alizee”
  • Kabyle: “Lezzayer”
  • Kabyle: “Zzayer”
  • Kalaallisut: “Algier”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ಜೀಯರ್ಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಜೇರ್”
  • Kashubian: “Algierë”
  • Kazakh: “Алжир”
  • Kazakh: “Джазаир”
  • Kazakh: “Эль-Джазаир”
  • Kirghiz: “Алжир шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Алжир”
  • Komering: “Aljir”
  • Kongo: “Alger”
  • Korean: “알제”
  • Kotava: “Aljazair”
  • Kurdish: “Cezayir”
  • Ladino: “Ardjel”
  • Ladino: “Arjel”
  • Latin: “Algeria”
  • Latin: “Icosium”
  • Latvian: “Alžīra”
  • Ligurian: “Algè”
  • Ligurian: “Algê”
  • Lingala: “Alje”
  • Lithuanian: “Alžyras”
  • Livvi: “Alžir (linnu)”
  • Livvi: “Alžir”
  • Lombard: “Algeri”
  • Low German: “Algier”
  • Luxembourgish: “Alger”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Alger”
  • Macedonian: “Алжир”
  • Maithili: “अल्जीएर्स”
  • Malagasy: “Alger”
  • Malagasy: “Algiers”
  • Malay: “Algiers”
  • Malayalam: “അൾജിയേഴ്സ്”
  • Maltese: “Algiers”
  • Maltese: “Alġiers”
  • Maltese: “L-Alġier”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯜꯖꯤꯌꯔꯁ”
  • Manx: “Algiers”
  • Manx: “Balley yn Algear”
  • Marathi: “अल्जीयर्स”
  • Mazanderani: “الجزیره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Algiers”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Algiers”
  • Minangkabau: “Aljir”
  • Mingrelian: “ალჟირი”
  • Moksha: “Алжир”
  • Mongolian: “Алжир хот”
  • Mongolian: “Алжир”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لجزائر لعاصمة”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لجزائر‎”
  • Navajo: “Táłkááʼ Dahndaaʼeeł”
  • Nepali: “अल्जियर्स”
  • Nepali: “अल्जीएर्स”
  • Northern Frisian: “Algier”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alger”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alger”
  • Norwegian: “Alger”
  • Novial: “Algiers”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Argièr”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܓܙܐܐܪ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Algiers”
  • Ossetian: “Алжир”
  • Pampanga: “Algiers”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲ-ਜਜ਼ਾਇਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Algiers”
  • Persian: “الجزیره”
  • Piemontese: “Algeri”
  • Polish: “Algier”
  • Portuguese: “Argel”
  • Pushto: “الجزيره”
  • Romanian: “Alger”
  • Russian: “Алжир (город)”
  • Russian: “Алжир”
  • Russian: “столица Алжира”
  • Russian: “Эль-Джазаир”
  • Samogitian: “Alžīrs”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱞᱡᱤᱭᱟᱨᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Algeri”
  • Scots: “Algiers”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Algiers”
  • Serbian: “Alžir”
  • Serbian: “Алжир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alžir”
  • Shona: “Algiers”
  • Sicilian: “Algeri”
  • Silesian: “Alger”
  • Sindhi: “الجزائر شھر”
  • Sinhala: “ඇල්ජියර්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Alžír”
  • Slovenian: “Alžir”
  • Somali: “Algiers”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الجزیره”
  • Spanish: “Argel”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔ (ⵜⴰⵎⴷⵉⵏⵜ)”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔ”
  • Sundanese: “Aljir”
  • Swahili: “Algiers”
  • Swahili: “Aljeri”
  • Swedish: “Alger, Algeriet”
  • Swedish: “Alger”
  • Swiss German: “Algier”
  • Tachelhit: “Dzayr (tamdint)”
  • Tachelhit: “Dzayr”
  • Tagalog: “Algiers”
  • Tagalog: “Argel”
  • Tagalog: “Arhel”
  • Tajik: “Алҷазира”
  • Tajik: “Алҷазоир”
  • Talysh: “Əlčəzajir”
  • Talysh: “Əlcəzayir şəhər”
  • Tamil: “அல்ஜியர்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Әлҗәзаир (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Әлҗәзаир”
  • Telugu: “ఆల్జీర్స్”
  • Thai: “แอลเจียร์”
  • Tibetan: “ཨཱལ་ཇི་ཡར་སི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Algier”
  • Turkish: “Cezayir”
  • Turkmen: “Alžir”
  • Twi: “Alger”
  • Udmurt: “Алжир”
  • Uighur: “ئالجىر”
  • Ukrainian: “Алжир”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Algier”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Alžěr”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Alžir”
  • Urdu: “الجزائر شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Jazoir”
  • Venetian: “Algeri”
  • Venetian: “Alzeri”
  • Veps: “Alžir”
  • Vietnamese: “Algiers”
  • Vlax Romani: “Algiers”
  • Volapük: “Cäsair”
  • Võro: “Alžiir”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Algiers”
  • Welsh: “Alger”
  • Western Armenian: “Ալժէ”
  • Western Frisian: “Algiers”
  • Western Mari: “Алжир”
  • Western Panjabi: “الجیرز”
  • Wolof: “Alse”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿尔及尔”
  • Yiddish: “אלזשירס”
  • Yoruba: “Algiers”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿爾及爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Alhiers”
  • Zulu: “Algiers”
  • Zulu: “i-Algiers”
  • “Aljir”
  • “Alžiir”
  • “Alžīrs”
  • “Argel”

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