NW Algeria
Oran Province
Oran District

Oran

Oran is the second largest city in Algeria and the capital of Oran province, with more than 1,500,000 people.
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  • Type: City with 853,000 residents
  • Description: coastal city in Oran Province, Algeria
  • Also known as: “Ouahran”, “Wahran”, and “Wahrān”
Photo: Mohamed-Bachir Belaid, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d’Oran and Abdellah Ben Salem Mosque.

Library
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Oran is a former Roman Catholic church located at Place de la Kahina, on Boulevard Hammou-boutlelis, in Oran, .

Mosque
Photo: DZ-WahranUser, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a in Oran, . Formerly the Great Synagogue of Oran, it was the largest synagogue in . Also known as Temple Israélite, it was located on Boulevard Joffre, currently Boulevard Maata Mohamed El Habib.

Castle
Photo: Mecifi, Public domain.
is a fort in Oran, the second largest port city of . It is one of Oran's three forts; the other two forts are Fort de la Moune at the western end of the port and Fort Saint-Philippe, a replacement of the old castle of the Saints known in Spanish as Castillo de los Santos, at the centre of Oran.

Oran

Latitude
35.7044° or 35° 42′ 16″ north
Longitude
-0.6503° or 0° 39′ 1″ west
Population
853,000
Elevation
118 metres (387 feet)
IATA airport code
ORN
United Nations Location Code
DZ ORN
Open location code
8C7XP83X+QV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565103
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2485926
Wiki­data ID
Q131818
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Oran” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Oran”
  • Algerian Arabic: “وهران”
  • Algerian Arabic: “وهرن”
  • Arabic: “مدينة وهران”
  • Arabic: “ولاية وهران”
  • Arabic: “وهران”
  • Armenian: “Օրան”
  • Asturian: “Orán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vəhran”
  • Basque: “Oran”
  • Belarusian: “Аран”
  • Belarusian: “Вахран”
  • Bengali: “ওরান”
  • Bishnupriya: “ওরান”
  • Bosnian: “Oran”
  • Breton: “Oran”
  • Bulgarian: “Оран”
  • Catalan: “Orà”
  • Catalan: “Oran”
  • Catalan: “Wahran”
  • Cebuano: “Oran”
  • Central Kurdish: “وەهران”
  • Central Kurdish: “وەھران”
  • Chechen: “ВахӀрана”
  • Chechen: “Оран”
  • Chinese: “Oran”
  • Chinese: “奥兰”
  • Chinese: “奧蘭”
  • Chinese: “瓦赫兰”
  • Chinese: “瓦赫蘭”
  • Croatian: “Oran”
  • Czech: “Oran”
  • Czech: “Vahrán”
  • Czech: “Wahran”
  • Danish: “Oran”
  • Danish: “Wahran”
  • Dutch: “Oran”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وهران”
  • Esperanto: “Oran”
  • Esperanto: “Orano”
  • Estonian: “Oran”
  • Finnish: “Oran”
  • French: “Oran”
  • French: “Wahran”
  • French: “Waran”
  • Galician: “Orán, Alxeria”
  • Galician: “Orán”
  • Georgian: “ორანი”
  • German: “Oran”
  • German: “Wahran”
  • Greek: “Οράν”
  • Gujarati: “ઓરાન”
  • Hausa: “Oran”
  • Hebrew: “אוראן”
  • Hebrew: “והראן”
  • Hindi: “ओरान”
  • Hungarian: “Orán”
  • Ido: “Oran”
  • Indonesian: “Oran”
  • Irish: “Oran”
  • Italian: “Orano”
  • Japanese: “オラン”
  • Kabyle: “Wehran”
  • Kabyle: “ⵡⴻⵂⵔⴰⵏ”
  • Kannada: “ಓರಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Oran qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Оран қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Оран”
  • Kazakh: “وران قالاسى”
  • Kirghiz: “Оран”
  • Korean: “오랑”
  • Kotava: “Oran”
  • Kotava: “Wahran”
  • Kurdish: “Oran”
  • Ladino: “Oran”
  • Latin: “Oranum”
  • Latin: “Portus Divini”
  • Latvian: “Orāna”
  • Latvian: “Vahrāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Oran”
  • Lithuanian: “Oranas”
  • Lithuanian: “Vahranas”
  • Lombard: “Oran”
  • Lombard: “Uran”
  • Luxembourgish: “Oran”
  • Macedonian: “Оран”
  • Malay: “Oran”
  • Malay: “Wahran”
  • Maltese: “Oran”
  • Marathi: “ओरान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Oran”
  • Moksha: “Оран”
  • Mongolian: “Оран”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “وهران”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oran”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oran”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oran”
  • Norwegian: “Oran”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oran”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Oran”
  • Ossetian: “Оран”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਹਿਰਾਨ”
  • Persian: “وهران، الجزایر”
  • Persian: “وهران”
  • Piemontese: “Oran”
  • Polish: “Oran”
  • Polish: “Wahran”
  • Portuguese: “Orã”
  • Portuguese: “Oran”
  • Portuguese: “Orão”
  • Romanian: “Oran”
  • Russian: “Вахран”
  • Russian: “Оран”
  • Scots: “Oran”
  • Serbian: “Oran”
  • Serbian: “Оран”
  • Serbian: “وهران”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oran”
  • Shona: “Oran”
  • Silesian: “Oran”
  • Sinhala: “ඔරාන්”
  • Slovak: “Oran”
  • Slovenian: “Oran”
  • Somali: “Oran”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وهران، الجزاییر”
  • Spanish: “Oran”
  • Spanish: “Orán”
  • Spanish: “Wahran”
  • Spanish: “Waran”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵡⴰⵀⵔⴰⵏ”
  • Swahili: “Oran”
  • Swedish: “Oran”
  • Swiss German: “Oran”
  • Tamil: “ஓரான்”
  • Tamil: “வாரான்”
  • Telugu: “ఓరన్”
  • Thai: “ออราน”
  • Thai: “โอราน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Oran”
  • Turkish: “Vahran”
  • Turkish: “Vehran”
  • Twi: “Oran”
  • Uighur: “ۋەھران”
  • Ukrainian: “Оран”
  • Urdu: “وہران”
  • Uzbek: “Vahron”
  • Venetian: “Orano”
  • Vietnamese: “Oran”
  • Walloon: “Oran”
  • Walloon: “Waradinne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oran”
  • Welsh: “Oran”
  • Western Panjabi: “وہران”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦赫兰”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧蘭 (阿爾及利亞)”
  • Zulu: “Oran”

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