Bouira
Bouira is a city in Central Algeria. With a population of nearly 80,000 people, it is the largest city and the capital city of Bouïra province.- Type: City with 696,000 residents
- Description: Commune and capital of the wilaya of Bouïra, Kabylia, Algeria
- Also known as: “Bordj Hamza”, “Bouïra”, “Bouira ⵝⵓⵠⵉⵔⴻⵜ البويرة”, “Coligny”, “Tuviret”, “Tuvirett”, “بويرة”, and “ⵜⵓⴱⵉⵔⴻⵜ”
Bouira
- Categories: commune of Algeria and locality
- Location: Bouira Province, Central Algeria, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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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
UN/LOCODE
DZ QBZ
Open location code
8F859WF2+H7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Bouira” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቦዊራ”
- Arabic: “البويرة”
- Armenian: “Բուիրա”
- Asturian: “Bouïra”
- Azerbaijani: “Buira”
- Azerbaijani: “Büyura”
- Belarusian: “Буйра”
- Bengali: “বুইরা”
- Catalan: “Bouira”
- Cebuano: “Bouïra”
- Chinese: “布維拉”
- Chinese: “布维拉”
- Dutch: “Bouira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “البويره”
- Finnish: “Bouira”
- French: “Bouira”
- German: “Bouira”
- Greek: “Μπουίρα”
- Greek: “Μπουΐρα”
- Hausa: “Bouira”
- Hebrew: “בואירה”
- Hindi: “बोइरा”
- Indonesian: “Bouira”
- Irish: “Bouïra”
- Italian: “Bouira”
- Japanese: “ブイラ”
- Javanese: “Bouira”
- Kabyle: “Tubiret”
- Kazakh: “Буира”
- Kirghiz: “Буира”
- Korean: “부이라”
- Latvian: “Buira”
- Malay: “Bouira”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bouira”
- Northern Frisian: “Bouïra”
- Oromo: “Bouira”
- Ossetian: “Буира”
- Panjabi: “ਬੌਇਰਾ”
- Persian: “بویره”
- Polish: “Al-Buwajra”
- Polish: “Bouira”
- Portuguese: “Bouira”
- Pushto: “بویرہ”
- Romanian: “Bouira”
- Russian: “Буира”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bujra”
- Somali: “Bouira”
- South Azerbaijani: “بویره”
- Spanish: “Al-Buira”
- Spanish: “Albuira”
- Spanish: “Bouira”
- Swahili: “Bouira”
- Tajik: “Буира”
- Tatar: “Буира”
- Turkish: “Bouira”
- Ukrainian: “Буїра”
- Urdu: “بویرہ”
- Uzbek: “Bouira”
- Uzbek: “Buira”
- Vietnamese: “Bouira”
- Vietnamese: “Bouïra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bouira”
- Western Panjabi: “برج”
- Western Panjabi: “بویرا”
- Zulu: “Bouïra”
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