Bejaia
Béjaïa, formerly known as Bougie and Bugia, is a Mediterranean port city and commune on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the capital of Béjaïa Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 178,000 residents
- Description: city and commune in Algeria
- Also known as: “Béjaïa”, “Biǧāya”, “Bijāya”, “Bougie”, “Bugia”, and “بوجي”
Photo: Mohand rabia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maghrebi Unity Stadium and Bejaia.
Maghrebi Unity Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maghrebi Unity Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Béjaïa, Kabylia, Algeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of JSM Béjaïa, MO Béjaïa and Olympique Akbou. The stadium holds 17,500 people.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.7512° or 36° 45′ 4″ northLongitude
5.0644° or 5° 3′ 52″ eastPopulation
178,000Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)IATA airport code
BJAOpen location code
8F87Q327+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 291964314OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Zulu—“Bejaia” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σάλδαι”
- Arabic: “البجاية”
- Arabic: “الناصرية”
- Arabic: “بجاية”
- Arabic: “ثالة برباشة بجاية”
- Aragonese: “Bochía”
- Armenian: “Բեջայա”
- Asturian: “Béjaïa”
- Azerbaijani: “Becaya”
- Basque: “Bejaia”
- Belarusian: “Беджая”
- Belarusian: “Бэджая”
- Bengali: “বেজারা”
- Breton: “Bejaia”
- Bulgarian: “Беджая”
- Bulgarian: “Бежая”
- Catalan: “Bejaia”
- Catalan: “Bejaïa”
- Catalan: “Bgayet”
- Catalan: “Bidjaya”
- Catalan: “Bougia”
- Catalan: “Bougie”
- Catalan: “Bugia”
- Cebuano: “Bejaïa”
- Chinese: “Béjaïa”
- Chinese: “貝賈亞”
- Chinese: “贝贾亚”
- Corsican: “Bejaia”
- Corsican: “Béjaïa”
- Corsican: “Bijāya”
- Corsican: “Bugia”
- Corsican: “Bugìa”
- Czech: “Bidžája”
- Czech: “Bougie”
- Czech: “Bugia”
- Czech: “Saldae”
- Danish: “Béjaïa”
- Danish: “Bougie”
- Dutch: “Béjaïa”
- Dutch: “Bougie”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بجايه”
- Esperanto: “Beĵaja”
- Estonian: “Bedžaja”
- Estonian: “Bejaia”
- Estonian: “Bejaïa”
- Estonian: “Béjaïa”
- Estonian: “Bougie”
- Estonian: “Saldae”
- Finnish: “Bejaia”
- Finnish: “Bejaïa”
- Finnish: “Bougie”
- French: “Béjaïa”
- French: “Bgayet”
- French: “Bougie”
- German: “Bejaia”
- German: “Béjaïa”
- German: “Bejaja”
- German: “Bgayet”
- German: “Bidschaya”
- German: “Bidschāya”
- Greek: “Μπετζάγια”
- Greek: “Μπετζάια”
- Greek: “Μπουζί”
- Greek: “Μπούτζια”
- Gujarati: “બેજાઈયા”
- Hausa: “Béjaïa”
- Hebrew: “בג’איה”
- Hindi: “बेजाइआ”
- Hindi: “बेजैअ”
- Indonesian: “Béjaïa”
- Irish: “Béjaïa”
- Italian: “Bejaia”
- Italian: “Béjaïa”
- Italian: “Bijaya”
- Italian: “Bijāya”
- Italian: “Bougie”
- Italian: “Bugia”
- Italian: “Saldae”
- Japanese: “ビジャーヤ”
- Japanese: “ベジャイア”
- Japanese: “ベジャイヤ”
- Kabyle: “Bgayet”
- Kabyle: “Tamdint n Bgayet”
- Kabyle: “Vgayet”
- Kannada: “ಬೇಜೈಯಾ”
- Kazakh: “Беджая қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Беджая”
- Korean: “베자이아”
- Korean: “베자이야”
- Latin: “Saldae”
- Latvian: “Bedžaja”
- Lithuanian: “Bedžaja”
- Lithuanian: “Bejaia”
- Lithuanian: “Bidžaja”
- Lithuanian: “Bijayah”
- Lithuanian: “Bougie”
- Macedonian: “Беџаја”
- Malay: “Béjaïa”
- Malay: “Bugia”
- Marathi: “बेजाईया”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Béjaïa”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بجاية”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bejaia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Béjaïa”
- Norwegian: “Béjaïa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Béjaïa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bogía”
- Persian: “بجایه، الجزایر”
- Persian: “بجایه”
- Polish: “Béjaïa”
- Polish: “Bidżaja”
- Polish: “Bougie”
- Portuguese: “Bejaia”
- Portuguese: “Béjaïa”
- Portuguese: “Bejair”
- Portuguese: “Bougie”
- Portuguese: “Bugia”
- Romanian: “Bejaia”
- Romanian: “Béjaïa”
- Russian: “Беджаия”
- Russian: “Беджайа”
- Russian: “Беджайя”
- Russian: “Беджая”
- Scots: “Béjaïa”
- Serbian: “Bedžaja”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bedžaja”
- Sicilian: “Béjaïa”
- Sicilian: “Buggìa”
- Sicilian: “Bugìa”
- Sinhala: “බෙජයා”
- Slovenian: “Béjaïa”
- Spanish: “Bejaia”
- Spanish: “Bejaïa”
- Spanish: “Béjaia”
- Spanish: “Béjaïa”
- Spanish: “Bejala”
- Spanish: “Bgayet”
- Spanish: “Bugia”
- Spanish: “Bugía”
- Spanish: “Bujia”
- Spanish: “Bujía”
- Spanish: “Saldae”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵊⴰⵢⵜ”
- Swahili: “Bejaia”
- Swahili: “Béjaïa”
- Swahili: “Bougie”
- Swahili: “Bugia”
- Swedish: “Bejaia”
- Swedish: “Bejaïa”
- Swedish: “Béjaïa”
- Tagalog: “Béjaïa”
- Tamil: “பேஜையா”
- Telugu: “బెజాయిఆ”
- Thai: “เบจายา”
- Turkish: “Bicaye”
- Turkish: “Bicâye”
- Ukrainian: “Беджая”
- Urdu: “بجایہ”
- Venetian: “Béjaïa”
- Vietnamese: “Bejaia”
- Vietnamese: “Béjaïa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bejaia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Béjaïa”
- Western Panjabi: “بجایہ”
- Zulu: “Béjaïa”
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