Biskra

Biskra is the main city of Zibans region and administratively capital city of in Algeria. In 2007, its population was recorded as 307,987.
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  • Type: City with 206,000 residents
  • Description: city in Algeria
  • Also known as: “Briskra” and “ⵜⵉⴱⴻⵙⴽⴻⵔⵜ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include 18 February Stadium.

Stadium
Photo: Chabirachabira, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, is a multi-use in Biskra, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and it is the home ground of football club US Biskra. The stadium holds 30,000 people. The stadium is a part of El Alia Sport Complex.

Biskra

Latitude
34.8509° or 34° 51′ 3″ north
Longitude
5.7291° or 5° 43′ 45″ east
Population
206,000
Elevation
115 metres (377 feet)
IATA airport code
BSK
United Nations Location Code
DZ BSK
Open location code
8F67VP2H+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299682811
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2503826
Wiki­data ID
Q312759
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Biskra” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ቢስክራ”
  • Arabic: “البسكرة”
  • Arabic: “بسكرة”
  • Arabic: “بسكره”
  • Arabic: “ولاية بسكرة”
  • Armenian: “Բիսկրա (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Բիսկրա”
  • Asturian: “Biskra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Biskra (şəhər)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Biskra”
  • Bashkir: “Бискра (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Бискра”
  • Basque: “Biskra”
  • Belarusian: “Біскра”
  • Bengali: “বিসক্রা”
  • Breton: “Biskra”
  • Bulgarian: “Бискра”
  • Catalan: “Biskra”
  • Cebuano: “Biskra”
  • Chinese: “Biskra”
  • Chinese: “比斯克拉”
  • Croatian: “Biskra”
  • Czech: “Biskra”
  • Danish: “Biskra”
  • Dutch: “Biskra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بسكره”
  • Esperanto: “Biskra”
  • Estonian: “Biskra”
  • Finnish: “Biskra”
  • French: “Ad Piscinam”
  • French: “Biscra”
  • French: “Biskra”
  • French: “Vescera”
  • German: “Biskira”
  • German: “Biskra”
  • Greek: “Μπίσκρα”
  • Gujarati: “બિસ્ક્ર્રા”
  • Hausa: “Biskra”
  • Hebrew: “ביסכרה”
  • Hindi: “बिस्क्रा”
  • Indonesian: “Biskra”
  • Irish: “Biskra”
  • Italian: “Bescera”
  • Italian: “Biskra”
  • Japanese: “ビスクラ”
  • Javanese: “Biskra”
  • Kabyle: “Tibeskert”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಸ್ಕ್ರಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Бискра”
  • Kirghiz: “Бискра”
  • Korean: “비스크라”
  • Latin: “Vescera”
  • Latvian: “Biskra”
  • Lithuanian: “Beskra”
  • Lithuanian: “Biskra”
  • Lithuanian: “Biskrah”
  • Lithuanian: “Vescera”
  • Malay: “Biskra”
  • Marathi: “बिसकरा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Biskra”
  • Northern Frisian: “Biskra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Biskra”
  • Norwegian: “Biskra”
  • Oromo: “Biskra”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਿਸਕਰਾ”
  • Persian: “بسکره، الجزایر”
  • Persian: “بسکره”
  • Polish: “Biskira”
  • Portuguese: “Biskra”
  • Pushto: “بسکرہ”
  • Romanian: “Biskra”
  • Russian: “Бискра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Biskra”
  • Sinhala: “බිස්ක්රා”
  • Slovenian: “Beskra”
  • Slovenian: “Biskra”
  • Slovenian: “Tibeskert”
  • Somali: “Biskra”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بسکره، الجزاییر”
  • Spanish: “Biskra”
  • Swahili: “Biskra”
  • Swedish: “Beskra”
  • Swedish: “Biskra”
  • Tajik: “Бискра”
  • Tamil: “பிஸ்குரா”
  • Tatar: “Бискра”
  • Telugu: “బిస్క్రా”
  • Thai: “บิสกรา”
  • Turkish: “Biskra”
  • Turkish: “Bsikra”
  • Ukrainian: “Біскра”
  • Urdu: “بسکرہ”
  • Urdu: “بیسکرا”
  • Uzbek: “Biskra”
  • Venetian: “Biskra”
  • Vietnamese: “Biskra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Biskra”
  • Western Panjabi: “بسکرہ”
  • Zulu: “Biskra”

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