Mers El Kebir
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port town in Oran, Algeria
Key facts
- Country
- Algeria
- Province
- Oran
- District
- Aïn El Turk
- Total
- 10.98 km (4.24 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 0 m (0 ft)
- Density
- 1,544/km (3,998/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01 ( CET )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of Algeria
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Aïn El Turk District
- Area
- 10.98
- Elevation
- 0
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Oran
- Image
- MOts Murdjajou surplombant Oran (13).jpg
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- postal code
- 31310
- Commons category
- Mers El Kebir
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Encyclopedic overview
Mers El Kébir (Arabic: المرسى الكبير, romanized: al-Marsā al-Kabīr, lit. 'The Great Harbor' pronunciation) is a port on the Mediterranean Sea, near Oran in Oran Province, northwest Algeria. It is famous for the attack on the French fleet in 1940, in the Second World War.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mers El Kebir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.