Key facts
- Country
- Algeria
- Province
- Illizi
- District
- Ain Amenas (seat)
- Total
- 14,913 km (5,758 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 549 m (1,801 ft)
- Density
- 0.4952/km (1.283/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01 ( CET )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of Algeria
- Official name
- إن أميناس
- Country
- France
- Located in
- In Amenas District
- Population
- 9225
- Area
- 14.913
- Elevation
- 556
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Capital of
- In Amenas District
- Shares border with
- Debdeb
- Image
- Monument - In Amenas ان اميناس - ذكرى الاستقلال - panoramio.jpg
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- postal code
- 33200
- Commons category
- In Amenas
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Encyclopedic overview
In Amenas (Arabic: إن أميناس, ‘In ’Amanās) is a town and commune in eastern Algeria, bordering with Libya. The town is located 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of the border. There is no border crossing in the area. The municipality had 7,385 inhabitants in 2008, up from 5.302 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 3.4% According to the Algerian novelist Mouloud Mammeri the name is a Tuareg word which means "place of camel drivers."
The natural gas facility near the municipality was attacked by Islamist militants in January 2013.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “In Amenas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.