Bechar

Béchar is the capital city of , Algeria. It is also a commune, coextensive with Béchar District, of Béchar Province. In 2008 the city had a population of 165,627, up from 134,954 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 2.1%.
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  • Type: City with 166,000 residents
  • Description: city and capital of Béchar Province, Algeria
  • Also known as: “Baššar”, “Béchar”, “Bēchar”, “Bišár”, “Colomb Bechar”, “Colomb Béchar”, “Colomb-Bechar”, “Colomb-Béchar”, “Daïra de Bechar”, “البشار”, “بشار ⴱⴻⵛⵛⴰⵔ”, and “可倫布比哈”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Bechar.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Bechar

Latitude
31.6163° or 31° 36′ 59″ north
Longitude
-2.2184° or 2° 13′ 6″ west
Population
166,000
Elevation
780 metres (2,559 feet)
IATA airport code
CBH
UN/LOCODE
DZ CBH
Open location code
8C3VJQ8J+GJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299695849
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2505530
Wiki­data ID
Q638704
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Zulu—“Bechar” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Bechar”
  • Amharic: “በቻር”
  • Arabic: “بشار”
  • Asturian: “Béchar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Beşar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəşar (şəhər)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəşar”
  • Basque: “Bexar”
  • Belarusian: “Бешар”
  • Belarusian: “Бэшар”
  • Bengali: “বেকহার”
  • Bengali: “বেচার”
  • Catalan: “Béchar”
  • Cebuano: “Béchar”
  • Chinese: “貝沙爾”
  • Chinese: “贝沙尔”
  • Czech: “Béchar”
  • Danish: “Béchar”
  • Dutch: “Béchar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بشار”
  • Esperanto: “Beŝar”
  • Finnish: “Béchar”
  • French: “Béchar”
  • German: “Baschar”
  • German: “Bechar”
  • Greek: “Μπεσάρ”
  • Greek: “Μπέτσαρ”
  • Gujarati: “બેચર”
  • Hausa: “Bechar”
  • Hausa: “Béchar”
  • Hebrew: “בכר”
  • Hebrew: “בשאר”
  • Hindi: “बेचर”
  • Hindi: “बेशार”
  • Indonesian: “Basyar”
  • Italian: “Bechar”
  • Italian: “Béchar”
  • Japanese: “ベシャール”
  • Javanese: “Bechar”
  • Kabyle: “Beccar”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಚಾರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Бешар қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Бешар”
  • Kirghiz: “Бешар”
  • Korean: “베샤르”
  • Ladino: “Wilaya de Beshar”
  • Latvian: “Bešāra”
  • Lithuanian: “Bešaras”
  • Malay: “Bechar”
  • Malay: “Béchar”
  • Marathi: “बेकर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Béchar”
  • Northern Frisian: “Béchar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Béchar”
  • Norwegian: “Béchar”
  • Oromo: “Bechar”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੇਚਾਰ”
  • Persian: “بشار، الجزایر”
  • Persian: “بشار”
  • Polish: “Baszszar”
  • Portuguese: “Bechar”
  • Portuguese: “Béchar”
  • Portuguese: “Bexar”
  • Pushto: “بشار، الجزاير”
  • Pushto: “بیشار”
  • Romanian: “Bechar”
  • Romanian: “Béchar”
  • Russian: “Бешар”
  • Russian: “Бешаре”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bešar”
  • Sinhala: “බෙචාර්”
  • Slovenian: “Béchar”
  • Somali: “Bechar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بشار، الجزاییر”
  • Spanish: “Béchar”
  • Swahili: “Bechar”
  • Swahili: “Béchar”
  • Swedish: “Béchar”
  • Tajik: “Бешар”
  • Tamil: “பேச்சார்”
  • Tatar: “Бешар”
  • Telugu: “బెచర్”
  • Thai: “เบชาร์”
  • Tumbuka: “Béchar”
  • Turkish: “Bechar”
  • Turkish: “Béchar”
  • Ukrainian: “Бешар”
  • Urdu: “بشار، الجزائر”
  • Urdu: “بشار”
  • Urdu: “بیشار”
  • Uzbek: “Bechar”
  • Uzbek: “Beshar”
  • Vietnamese: “Bechar”
  • Vietnamese: “Béchar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Béchar”
  • Western Panjabi: “بشار”
  • Zulu: “Béchar”

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