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Sidi Bel Abbès is a city and commune in Algeria, serving as the capital of both Sidi Bel Abbès Province and Sidi Bel Abbès District. Established in 1849, the municipality has at various times been part of France and Algeria. It shares a border with Ain Thrid and is situated at an elevation of 470 meters above sea level. The city covers an area of 9150.63 square kilometers and operates in the UTC+01:00 time zone.
The population of Sidi Bel Abbès is recorded as 212,935, with a postal code of 22005. Located at coordinates 35.2, -0.63333333333333, the city is described in sources including the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
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Place details
- Locality
- Sidi Bel Abbès ⵙⵉⴷⵉ ⴱⵍⵄⴰⴱⴰⵙ سيدي بلعباس
- Region
- سيدي بلعباس Sidi Bel Abbès ⵙⵉⴷⵉ ⴱⴻⵍ ⵄⴻⴱⴱⴰⵙ
- Country
- ⵍⵣⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ الجزائر
- Population
- 210,146
- Timezone
- Africa/Algiers
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Travel guide
Understand
Sidi Bel Abbes is the commercial center of an important area of vineyards, market gardens, orchards, and grain fields. Historically tied with the French Foreign Legion, it previously was enclosed with walls and had four gates. Now it has a university. It is 75 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.
Sidi Bel Abbes province is divided into 15 districts (daïras), which are further divided into 52 communes or municipalities.
Get in
Sidi Bel Abbes is well connected to other Algerian cities by roads and railroads. Oran is 70 kilometers north and Tlemcen is 90 kilometers west of Sidi Bel Abbès. The closest airport is Es Senia Airport in Oran.
Sleep
Hotel chain Metropole has three different locations in the city.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
Sidi Bel Abbès (Arabic: سيدي بلعباس, romanized: Sīdī Bu ’l-ʿAbbās), also called Bel Abbès, is the capital (2005 pop. 200,000) of the Sidi Bel Abbès wilaya (2005 pop. 590,000), Algeria. It is named after Sidi bel Abbass, a Muslim marabout or noble man who is buried there. The city is the commercial center of an important area of vineyards, market gardens, orchards, and grain fields. It was formerly surrounded by a wall with four gates, and today is home to a university. Sidi Bel Abbès is 75 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sidi Bel Abbès” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.