Bejaia
Béjaïa is a Mediterranean port city and commune on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the capital of Béjaïa Province.
- Type: City with 178,000 residents
- Description: city and commune in Algeria
- Also known as: “Béjaia”, “Béjaïa”, “Béjaïa ⴲⴳⴰⵢⴻⵝ بجاية”, “Bejair”, “Bejaja”, “Bejala”, “Bidjaya”, “Bidschaya”, “Bidžaja”, “Biǧāya”, “Bijāya”, “Bijayah”, “Bougia”, “Buggìa”, “Bugìa”, “Bujia”, “Bujía”, “Tiɣṛemt n Bgayet”, “Μπουζί”, “Μπούτζια”, “Беджаия”, “Беджайа”, “Беджайя”, “Бежая”, “البجاية”, “الناصرية”, “بوجي”, “ثالة برباشة بجاية”, “베자이야”, “ビジャーヤ”, and “ベジャイヤ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Maghrebi Unity Stadium and Bejaia.
Maghrebi Unity Stadium
Stadium
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cap Bouak.
Bejaia
- Categories: commune of Algeria, big city, and locality
- Location: Béjaïa District, Béjaia Province, Central Algeria, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
36.7512° or 36° 45′ 4″ north
Longitude
5.0644° or 5° 3′ 52″ east
Population
178,000
Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)
IATA airport code
BJA
Open location code
8F87Q327+FP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Bejaia” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “በጃያ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σάλδαι”
- Arabic: “بجاية”
- Aragonese: “Bochía”
- Armenian: “Բեջայա”
- Asturian: “Béjaïa”
- Azerbaijani: “Becaya”
- Azerbaijani: “Bejayd”
- Basque: “Bejaia”
- Belarusian: “Беджая”
- Belarusian: “Бэджая”
- Bengali: “বেজাইয়া”
- Bengali: “বেজারা”
- Breton: “Bejaia”
- Bulgarian: “Беджая”
- Catalan: “Bejaïa”
- Catalan: “Bugia”
- Cebuano: “Bejaïa”
- Chinese: “貝賈亞”
- Chinese: “贝贾亚”
- Corsican: “Béjaïa”
- Czech: “Bidžája”
- Danish: “Béjaïa”
- Dutch: “Béjaïa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بجايه”
- Esperanto: “Beĵaja”
- Estonian: “Bejaïa”
- Finnish: “Bejaïa”
- French: “Béjaïa”
- French: “Bougie”
- German: “Bejaia”
- German: “Bidschāya”
- Greek: “Μπετζάγια”
- Greek: “Μπετζάια”
- Gujarati: “બેજાઈયા”
- Hausa: “Bejaia”
- Hausa: “Béjaïa”
- Hebrew: “בג’איה”
- Hindi: “बेजाया”
- Hindi: “बेजैअ”
- Indonesian: “Bejaia”
- Indonesian: “Béjaïa”
- Irish: “Béjaïa”
- Italian: “Bejaia”
- Italian: “Béjaïa”
- Italian: “Bijaya”
- Japanese: “ベジャイア”
- Javanese: “Bejaia”
- Kabyle: “Bgayet”
- Kannada: “ಬೇಜೈಯಾ”
- Kazakh: “Беджая қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Беджая”
- Kirghiz: “Беджая”
- Korean: “베자이아”
- Latin: “Saldae”
- Latvian: “Bedžaja”
- Lithuanian: “Bedžaja”
- Macedonian: “Беџаја”
- Malay: “Bejaia”
- Malay: “Béjaïa”
- Marathi: “बेजाईया”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Béjaïa”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بجاية”
- Northern Frisian: “Béjaïa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Béjaïa”
- Norwegian: “Béjaïa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Béjaïa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bogía”
- Oromo: “Bejaia”
- Panjabi: “ਬੇਜਾਇਆ”
- Persian: “بجایه، الجزایر”
- Persian: “بجایه”
- Polish: “Bidżaja”
- Portuguese: “Bugia”
- Pushto: “بجایہ”
- Romanian: “Bejaia”
- Romanian: “Béjaïa”
- Russian: “Беджая”
- Scots: “Béjaïa”
- Serbian: “Bedžaja”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bedžaja”
- Sicilian: “Béjaïa”
- Sinhala: “බෙජයා”
- Slovenian: “Béjaïa”
- Somali: “Bejaia”
- Spanish: “Bugía”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵊⴰⵢⵜ”
- Swahili: “Bejaia”
- Swahili: “Béjaïa”
- Swedish: “Bejaïa”
- Swedish: “Béjaïa”
- Tagalog: “Béjaïa”
- Tajik: “Беджая”
- Tajik: “Беҷайя”
- Tamil: “பேஜையா”
- Tatar: “Беджая”
- Telugu: “బెజాయిఆ”
- Thai: “เบจายา”
- Turkish: “Bejaia”
- Turkish: “Bicaye”
- Turkish: “Bicâye”
- Ukrainian: “Беджая”
- Urdu: “بجایہ”
- Uzbek: “Bejaia”
- Venetian: “Béjaïa”
- Vietnamese: “Béjaïa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Béjaïa”
- Western Panjabi: “بجایہ”
- Zulu: “Béjaïa”
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