M’zab
M'zab is a limestone plateau in Saharan Algeria and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its collection of desert fortress-cities is exotic to the point of surrealism.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Region with an elevation of 506 metres
- Description: Valley in the north of Algerian Sahara, in the Ghardaïa province
- Also known as: “Aghlan”, “M’Zab Valley”, “Msab”, “Mzab”, and “Mzab valley”
Photo: Yves Jalabert, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cathedral of Ghardaïa.
Cathedral of Ghardaïa
Church
The Pro-Cathedral of Ghardaïa, or simply Cathedral of Ghardaia, is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Ghardaïa, Ghardaïa Province, Algeria.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bounoura and Beni Isguen.
Bounoura
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bounoura is a town and commune in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 35,405, up from 27,775 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 2.5%.
M’zab
- Categories: valley, archaeological site, oasis, historical region, and locality
- Location: Ghardaia Province, Saharan Algeria, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
32.482° or 32° 28′ 55″ northLongitude
3.6649° or 3° 39′ 54″ eastElevation
506 metres (1,660 feet)Open location code
8F45FMJ7+RXOpenStreetMap ID
way 530564404OpenStreetMap feature
place=region
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“M’zab” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مزاب”
- Arabic: “مصاب”
- Arabic: “منطقة ميزاب”
- Arabic: “وادي ميزاب”
- Azerbaijani: “Mzab”
- Basque: “Mzab”
- Belarusian: “Даліна Мзаб”
- Belarusian: “Мзаб”
- Bengali: “মা‘জাব”
- Bengali: “মা’জাব”
- Burmese: “အွမ်ဇက်ဘ်ဒေသ”
- Catalan: “Mzab”
- Chinese: “姆扎卜山谷”
- Chinese: “莫查布山谷”
- Croatian: “M’zab”
- Czech: “Mzab”
- Danish: “M’Zab dalen”
- Danish: “M’Zab-dalen”
- Dutch: “M’Zab vallei”
- Dutch: “M’Zab”
- Esperanto: “Mzab”
- Finnish: “M’zabin laakso”
- Finnish: “M’Zabin laakso”
- French: “M’Zab”
- French: “Msab”
- French: “Mzab”
- French: “Vallée du M’Zab”
- Georgian: “მზაბი”
- German: “M’zab”
- German: “Mzab”
- Greek: “Κοιλάδα Μ’Ζαμπ”
- Hausa: “M’zab”
- Hebrew: “מזאב”
- Hungarian: “Mzab-völgy”
- Indonesian: “M’zab”
- Indonesian: “Mzab”
- Irish: “M’zab”
- Italian: “M’Zab”
- Italian: “Mzab”
- Italian: “Valle di M’Zab”
- Japanese: “ムザブ”
- Japanese: “ムザブの谷”
- Kabyle: “Mzab”
- Kabyle: “Mẓab”
- Lithuanian: “Mzabas”
- Lithuanian: “Mzabo slėnis”
- Maithili: “मजब”
- Maltese: “M’zab”
- Maltese: “Mzab”
- Maltese: “Wied ta‘ M’zab”
- Maltese: “Wied ta’ M’zab”
- Nepali: “मजब”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “M’Zab-dalen”
- Norwegian: “M’Zab-dalen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mzab”
- Persian: “مزاب”
- Polish: “Al-Mizab”
- Polish: “M’Zab”
- Polish: “Mzab”
- Polish: “Wadi Mizab”
- Polish: “Wadi Mzab”
- Portuguese: “Mzab”
- Portuguese: “Vale de M’Zab”
- Romanian: “Valea uedului M’Zab”
- Russian: “Долина Мзаб”
- Russian: “Мзаб”
- Serbo-Croatian: “M’zab”
- Slovenian: “Dolina M’Zab”
- Spanish: “M’zab”
- Spanish: “Valle de M’Zab”
- Swedish: “M’Zab-dalen”
- Swedish: “M’Zab”
- Swedish: “Mzab”
- Turkish: “M’Zab”
- Ukrainian: “Долина Мзаб”
- Ukrainian: “Мзаб”
- Venetian: “Mzab”
- Vietnamese: “M’zab”
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