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El Oued
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city and capital of El Oued Province, Algeria
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El Oued is a city, commune, and oasis in Algeria. It serves as the capital of both El Oued Province and El Oued District. The city has a population of 134,699 and covers an area of 585.8 square kilometers. It is situated at an elevation of 76 meters above sea level and shares a border with Hassani Abdelkrim. El Oued is designated as a Tentative World Heritage Site.
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Place details
- Locality
- El Oued ⵍⵡⴰⴷ الوادي
- Region
- الوادي ⵍⵡⴰⴷ
- Country
- ⵍⵣⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ الجزائر
- Population
- 186,525
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Key facts
- Country
- Algeria
- Province
- El Oued Province
- District
- El Oued District
- Total
- 77.0 km (29.7 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 76 m (249 ft)
- Density
- 1,750/km (4,530/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
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Encyclopedic overview
El Oued (Arabic: اﻟﻮادي, romanized: al-Wādī), Souf or Oued Souf is a city, and the capital of El Oued Province, in Algeria. The oasis town is watered by an underground river, hence its name is El Oued which enables date palm cultivation and the rare use (for the desert) of brick construction for housing. As most roofs are domed, it is known as the "City of a Thousand Domes".
El Oued is located 400 miles (640 km) south east of Algiers (the capital city of Algeria), near the Tunisian border. The population of El Oued was 134,699 as of the 2008 census, up from 105,256 in 1998, with a population growth rate of 2.5%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “El Oued” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.