Tindouf Province
Also known as Tindouf
province of Algeria
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Tindouf is a province in southwestern Algeria, located near the borders with Mauritania and Western Sahara. It matters primarily because of its strategic location and its role in hosting refugee camps for Sahrawi people displaced by the Western Sahara conflict.
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Tindouf Province, also written Tinduf Province (Arabic: ولاية تندوف), is the westernmost province of Algeria, having a population of 58,193 as of the 2008 census (not including the Sahrawi refugees at the Sahrawi refugee camps). Its population in reality could be as high as 160,000 because of the Sahrawi refugee camps. Despite the barren landscape, Tindouf is a resource-rich province, with important quantities of iron ore located in the Gara Djebilet area close to the border with Mauritania. Prior to Algerian independence, the area served as a strongpoint of several tribes of the nomadic Reguibat confederation.
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