Bouira

Bouira is a city in . With a population of nearly 80,000 people, it is the largest city and the capital city of Bouïra province.
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  • Type: City with 696,000 residents
  • Description: Commune and capital of the wilaya of Bouïra, Kabylia, Algeria
  • Also known as: Bordj Hamza”, “Bouïra”, “Coligny”, “Tubiret”, “Tuviret”, “البويرة”, and “ⵜⵓⴱⵉⵔⴻⵜ

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Taghzout.

Village
is a town and commune in , .

Bouira

Latitude
36.3739° or 36° 22′ 26″ north
Longitude
3.9007° or 3° 54′ 3″ east
Population
696,000
Elevation
519 metres (1,703 feet)
IATA airport code
QBZ
United Nations Location Code
DZ QBZ
Open location code
8F859WF2+H7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 394733994
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2502958
Wiki­data ID
Q722522
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Bouira” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: البويرة
  • Arabic: بويرة
  • Armenian: Բուիրա
  • Asturian: Bouïra
  • Azerbaijani: Buira
  • Azerbaijani: Büyura
  • Belarusian: Буйра
  • Catalan: Bouira
  • Cebuano: Bouïra
  • Chinese: Bouira
  • Chinese: 布維拉
  • Chinese: 布维拉
  • Dutch: Bouira
  • Egyptian Arabic: البويره
  • Finnish: Bouira
  • French: Bouira
  • French: Bouïra
  • German: Bouira
  • Greek: Μπουίρα
  • Greek: Μπουΐρα
  • Hebrew: בואירה
  • Irish: Bouïra
  • Italian: Bouira
  • Japanese: ブイラ
  • Kabyle: Tubiret
  • Kabyle: Tuvirett
  • Korean: 부이라
  • Latvian: Buira
  • Malay: Bouira
  • Min Nan Chinese: Bouira
  • Ossetian: Буира
  • Persian: بویره
  • Polish: Al-Buwajra
  • Polish: Bouira
  • Portuguese: Bouira
  • Romanian: Bouira
  • Russian: Буира
  • Serbo-Croatian: Bujra
  • South Azerbaijani: بویره
  • Spanish: Al-Buira
  • Spanish: Albuira
  • Spanish: Bouira
  • Swahili: Bouira
  • Ukrainian: Буїра
  • Urdu: بویرہ
  • Uzbek: Buira
  • Vietnamese: Bouira
  • Vietnamese: Bouïra
  • Waray (Philippines): Bouira
  • Western Panjabi: برج
  • Western Panjabi: بویرا
  • Zulu: Bouïra

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bouira”. Photo: habib kaki, CC BY 3.0.