Aokas
Sign in to saveAokas (Berber language: Aweqqas) is a coastal city and commune in northern Algeria in the Béjaïa Province.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Aokas
- Settlement.nickname
- Aweqqas
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Aokas.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Algeria
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Algeria
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bejaia
- Settlement.leader_title
- President of the People's Municipal Assembly
- Settlement.leader_name
- Lagha Mohamed (2017-2022)
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 27.87
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 15,989 (2008)
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 574
- Settlement.timezone
- West Africa Time
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 300
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of Algeria
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Aokas District
- Elevation
- 300
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Capital of
- Aokas District
- Image
- Aokas.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0622
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- postal code
- 06130
- Commons category
- Aokas
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geography
- Hamlets
- Borders
- Cityscape
- References
Aokas (Berber language: Aweqqas) is a coastal city and commune in northern Algeria in the Béjaïa Province.
It is located at about 25 kilometres from the province's capital city of Bejaia. The commune of Aokas was created by decree of October 2, 1869. It covered an area of 2,202 hectares and had a population of 2,245 inhabitants in 1931. Its name in berber means shark. Its average altitude is 300 meters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aokas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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