Biskra
Biskra is the capital city of Biskra Province, Algeria. In 2007, its population was recorded as 307,987. Biskra is located in northeastern Algeria, about 248 miles from Algiers, 71 miles southwest of Batna and 137 miles north of Touggourt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Yelles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: habib kaki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 206,000 residents
- Description: city in Algeria
- Also known as: “Briskra”
Places of Interest
Highlights include 18 February Stadium.
18 February Stadium
Stadium
18 February Stadium, or Stade du 18-février, is a multi-use stadium in Biskra, Algeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and it is the home ground of football club US Biskra.
Biskra
- Categories: commune of Algeria, Roman city, big city, and locality
- Location: Biskra District, Biskra Province, Northeast Algeria, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
34.8509° or 34° 51′ 3″ northLongitude
5.7291° or 5° 43′ 45″ eastPopulation
206,000Elevation
115 metres (377 feet)IATA airport code
BSKUnited Nations Location Code
DZ BSKOpen location code
8F67VP2H+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 299682811OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2503826Wikidata ID
Q312759
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Biskra” goes by many names.
- 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”
- Hebrew: “ביסכרה”
- Hindi: “बिसकरा”
- Hindi: “बिस्क्रा”
- Indonesian: “Biskra”
- Irish: “Biskra”
- Italian: “Bescera”
- Italian: “Biskra”
- Japanese: “ビスクラ”
- Kabyle: “Tibeskert”
- Kannada: “ಬಿಸ್ಕ್ರಾ”
- Kazakh: “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”
- Persian: “بسکره، الجزایر”
- Persian: “بسکره”
- Polish: “Biskira”
- Portuguese: “Biskra”
- Romanian: “Biskra”
- Russian: “Бискра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Biskra”
- Sinhala: “බිස්ක්රා”
- Slovenian: “Beskra”
- Slovenian: “Biskra”
- Slovenian: “Tibeskert”
- South Azerbaijani: “بسکره، الجزاییر”
- Spanish: “Biskra”
- Swahili: “Biskra”
- Swedish: “Beskra”
- Swedish: “Biskra”
- Tamil: “பிஸ்குரா”
- Telugu: “బిస్క్రా”
- Thai: “บิสกรา”
- Turkish: “Bsikra”
- Ukrainian: “Біскра”
- Urdu: “بیسکرا”
- Venetian: “Biskra”
- Vietnamese: “Biskra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Biskra”
- Western Panjabi: “بسکرہ”
- Zulu: “Biskra”
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