El Biar

El Biar الأبيار ⵍⴻⴱⵢⴰⵔ
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El Biar
Coordinates: 36°46′09″N 3°01′47″E / 36.769069°N 3.029684°E / 36.769069; 3.029684Coordinates: 36°46′09″N 3°01′47″E / 36.769069°N 3.029684°E / 36.769069; 3.029684
Country	Algeria
Province	Algiers
Population  (1998)
• Total	52,582
Website	elbiar-dz.org

Ministry of Energy and Mining in El Biar by night

El Biar (from Arabic "الأبيار", meaning "The Wells") is a suburb of Algiers, Algeria. It is located in the administrative constituency of Bouzaréah in the Algiers Province. As of the 1998 census, it has a population of 52,582 inhabitants. The suburb's postal code is 16030 and its municipal code is 1610.

Buildings[]

• Villa Susini

Notable residents[]

• Khalil Boukedjane, football player
• Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937–2021), 5th President of Algeria (1999–2019)^[1]
• Saïd Bouteflika, Algerian politician and academic, brother of Abdelaziz Bouteflika^[2]
• Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998), civil rights leader & author
• Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), philosopher
• Dahmane El Harrachi, chaabi singer
• Hàm Nghi, eighth Emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty
• Mohamed Hamdoud, football player
• Tarek Lazizi, retired football player
• Djamel Menad, retired football player
• Lahcène Nazef, football player
• Abderrahmane Nekli, diplomat
• Issam Nima, long jumper
• Georges Rochegrosse, French painter
• Rouiched, actor and comedian
• Abderrahmane Soukhane, retired football player
• Moïse Tshombe, Congolese politician put under house arrest

Government and infrastructure[]

The Transport Ministry has its head office in El Biar.^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• (in English) Ministry of Energy and Mining