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Béjaïa Province

The Béjaïa Province (Kabyle: Tawilayt n Bgayet; Arabic: ولاية بجاية, Wilāyat Bijāyah; French: wilaya de Béjaïa or province de Béjaïa) is a province of Algeria in the Kabylie region. The province's capital city is Béjaïa, the terminus of the Béni Mansour-Bejaïa line.

Coast of Bejaia Province

Gouraya National Park is located in Béjaïa Province. A population of an endangered primate species, the Barbary macaque, is found within the park; this primate has a severely restricted and disjunctive range.[2]

History

The province was created from the Sétif (département) in 1974.

Administrative divisions

The province is divided into 19 districts (daïras), which are further divided into 52 communes or municipalities.

Districts

  1. Adekar
  2. Akbou
  3. Amizour
  4. Aokas
  5. Barbacha
  6. Béjaïa
  7. Béni Maouche
  8. Chemini
  9. Darguina
  10. El Kseur
  11. Ifri-Ouzellaguen
  12. Ighil Ali
  13. Kherrata
  14. Seddouk
  15. Sidi Aïch
  16. Souk El Tenine
  17. Tazmalt
  18. Tichy
  19. Timezrit

Communes

  1. Adekar
  2. Aït-Rizine
  3. Aït-Smail
  4. Akbou
  5. Akfadou
  6. Amalou
  7. Amizour
  8. Aokas
  9. Barbacha
  10. Béjaïa
  11. Beni Djellil
  12. Beni Ksila
  13. Beni Maouche
  14. Beni Mellikeche
  15. Boudjellil
  16. Bouhamza
  17. Boukhelifa
  18. Chelata
  19. Chemini
  20. Darguina
  21. Draâ El-Kaïd
  22. El-Flaye
  23. El-Kseur
  24. Feraoun
  25. Ifenain Ilmathen
  26. Ighil Ali
  27. Ighram
  28. Kendira
  29. Kherrata
  30. Melbou
  31. Msisna
  32. Oued Ghir
  33. Ouzellaguen
  34. Seddouk
  35. Semaoune
  36. Sidi-Aïch
  37. Sidi-Ayad
  38. Sidi-Saïd
  39. Souk El-Thenine
  40. Souk-Oufella
  41. Tala Hamza
  42. Tamokra
  43. Tamridjet
  44. Taourit Ighil
  45. Taskriout
  46. Tazmalt
  47. Tinabdher
  48. Tibane
  49. Tichy
  50. Tifra
  51. Timezrit
  52. Tizi N'Berber
  53. Toudja

References

  1. ^ Office National des Statistiques, Recensement General de la Population et de l’Habitat 2008 Archived July 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Preliminary results of the 2008 population census. Accessed on 2008-07-02.
  2. ^ C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Barbary Macaque: Macaca sylvanus, Globaltwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg Archived April 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

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