Tlemcen
Tlemcen is the second-largest city in northwestern Algeria after Oran and the capital of Tlemcen Province. The city has developed leather, carpet, and textile industries, which it exports through the port of Rachgoun.
- Type: City with 140,000 residents
- Description: city in Algeria
- Also known as: “Agadir”, “Banu Sulayman”, “Emirat idrissida de Tlemcen”, “Emirat ifranita de Fakkan”, “Idríssides de Tlemcen”, “Imamat de Tlemcen”, “Imamat ifranita de Tlemcen”, “Reino de Tlemecen”, “Reino de Tlemecén”, “Reino de Tremecen”, “Tala Imsan”, “Tedelis”, “Termizén”, “Tilimsān”, “Tilimsanas”, “Tilismen”, “Tlemcén”, “Tlemoen”, “Tremissèn”, “תלם סן”, “أغادير (تلمسان)”, “أقادير”, “تلسمان”, “ⵜⵍⵎⵙⴰⵏ,تلمسان”, “ติลิมซาน”, “トゥレムセン”, and “特雷姆森”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sidi Belahcen Mosque and El Mechouar Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mansoûra.
Tlemcen
- Categories: big city, commune of Algeria, and locality
- Location: Tlemcen Province, Northwest Algeria, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.8818° or 34° 52′ 54″ north
Longitude
-1.3167° or 1° 19′ 0″ west
Population
140,000
Elevation
811 metres (2,661 feet)
IATA airport code
TLM
UN/LOCODE
DZ TLM
Open location code
8C6WVMJM+P8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Algerian Arabic to Zulu—“Tlemcen” goes by many names.
- Algerian Arabic: “تلمسان”
- Amharic: “ትለምሴን”
- Arabic: “تلمسان”
- Aragonese: “Termicén”
- Armenian: “Տլեմսեն”
- Asturian: “Tlemcen”
- Azerbaijani: “Tlemsen”
- Basque: “Tilimsen”
- Belarusian: “Тлемсен”
- Belarusian: “Тлемсэн”
- Bengali: “তেমচেন”
- Bengali: “ত্লেমসেন”
- Catalan: “Tilimsen”
- Catalan: “Tlemcen”
- Cebuano: “Tlemcen”
- Central Kurdish: “تلێمسێن”
- Chinese: “特莱姆森”
- Chinese: “特萊姆森”
- Croatian: “Tlemcen”
- Czech: “Tilimsán”
- Danish: “Tlemcen”
- Dutch: “Tlemcen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تلمسان”
- Esperanto: “Tlemecen”
- Finnish: “Tlemcen”
- French: “Tlemcen”
- German: “Tlemcen”
- Greek: “Τλεμσέν”
- Greek: “Τλέμσεν”
- Gujarati: “ટલેમ્કેન”
- Hausa: “Tlemcen”
- Hebrew: “תלמסאן”
- Hindi: “त्लेमसेन”
- Hungarian: “Tlemcen”
- Indonesian: “Tlemcen”
- Irish: “Tlemcen”
- Italian: “Tlemcen”
- Japanese: “トレムセン”
- Javanese: “Tlemcen”
- Kabyle: “Tlemsan”
- Kannada: “ಟ್ಲೆಮ್ಸೆನ್”
- Kazakh: “Tlemsen qalası”
- Kazakh: “Тлемсен қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Тлемсен”
- Kazakh: “تلەمسەن قالاسى”
- Kirghiz: “Тлемсен”
- Korean: “틀렘센”
- Kurdish: “Tlemsan”
- Latin: “Pomaria”
- Latvian: “Tlemsena”
- Lithuanian: “Tlemsenas”
- Macedonian: “Тлемсен”
- Malay: “Tilimsan”
- Malay: “Tlemcen”
- Maltese: “Tlemcen”
- Marathi: “टलेमसन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tlemcen”
- Moksha: “Тлэмсэн”
- Northern Frisian: “Tlemcen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tlemcen”
- Norwegian: “Tlemcen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tlemcen”
- Oromo: “Tlemcen”
- Ossetian: “Тлемсен (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Тлемсен”
- Panjabi: “ਤ੍ਲੇਮਸੇਨ”
- Persian: “تلمسان”
- Polish: “Tilimsan”
- Portuguese: “Tlemcen”
- Portuguese: “Tremecém”
- Pushto: “تلمسان”
- Romanian: “Tlemcen”
- Russian: “Тлемсен”
- Scots: “Tlemcen”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tlemcen”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tlemsen”
- Shona: “Tlemcen”
- Sinhala: “ට්ලෙම්සෙන්”
- Slovenian: “Tlemcen”
- Somali: “Tlemcen”
- South Azerbaijani: “تلمسان”
- Spanish: “Tremecén”
- Swahili: “Tlemcen”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Tlemcen”
- Swedish: “Tlemcen”
- Tachelhit: “Tilmsan”
- Tajik: “Тлемсен”
- Tamil: “டிலேம்ஸன்”
- Tatar: “Тлемсен”
- Telugu: “ట్లెమ్ సెన్”
- Thai: “ตเลมเซน”
- Thai: “ตแลมแซน”
- Turkish: “Tilimsan”
- Ukrainian: “Тлемсен”
- Urdu: “تلمسان”
- Uzbek: “Tilimsan”
- Uzbek: “Tlemcen”
- Venetian: “Tlemcen”
- Vietnamese: “Tlemcen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tlemcen”
- Welsh: “Tlemcen”
- Western Panjabi: “تلمسان”
- Zulu: “Tlemcen”
- “Tremecen”
- “تلمسان”
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