| Aïn Bya عين البية | |
|---|---|
| Commune and town | |
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  Aïn Bya | |
| Coordinates: 35°49′00″N0°17′00″W / 35.816667°N 0.283333°W | |
| Country |  |
| Province | Oran Province |
| District | Bethioua District |
| Area | |
| • Total | 13.96 sq mi (36.15 km2) |
| Population (2009) | |
| • Total | 32,611 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
Aïn Bya is a town and commune in Oran Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 26,253. [1]
The municipalities of Algeria form the second level of administrative subdivisions of Algeria. As of 2002, there were 1,541 municipalities in the country.
Oran is a province (wilaya) in Algeria whose seat is the city of the same name.
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest in Africa. Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the west by Morocco, to the southwest by the Western Saharan territory, Mauritania, and Mali, to the southeast by Niger, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country is a semi-presidential republic consisting of 48 provinces and 1,541 communes (counties). It has the highest human development index of all non-island African countries.
