Zorg, Algeria | |
|---|---|
Commune and town | |
| Country |  |
| Province | Oum El Bouaghi Province |
| Population (1998) | |
| • Total | 1,736 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
Zorg, Algeria is a town and commune in Oum El Bouaghi Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 1,736. [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.
Oum El Bouaghi or Oum el-Bouaghi is a province (wilaya) of Algeria in the Aures region. The capital is Oum el-Bouaghi, which was named Can Robert, Sidi R'Ghis a few years later, and Oum El Bouaghi before independence.
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, the world's largest Arab country, 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 the non-island African countries.
