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Commune and town in Oran Province, Algeria

El Kerma

El Kerma is a town and commune in Oran Province, Algeria.

El Kerma
El Kerma · Wikimedia Commons
The place

El Kerma is a town and commune in Oran Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 13,637.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around El Kerma

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Oran

    The Oran University 1 Ahmed Ben Bella, formally known as Es Senia University, is a university located in Es Sénia in the south suburb of Oran in the wilaya of Oran. It was established in November 1961 as part of the University of Algiers.

    5 km · university in Oran, Algeria · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to El Kerma

Airports
Oran Es-Sénia (Ahmed Ben Bella) (ORN), 5 km · Zenata – Messali El Hadj (TLM), 105 km · Oujda Angads (OUD), 154 km
Stations
Oran Ahmed Ben Bella Airport, 4.2 km
  • Zenata → El Kerma
    662 km · quickest by air, 6h 38m · MAD1,090–1,690
  • Chlef → El Kerma
    183 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · $16–23
  • Algiers → El Kerma
    352 km · quickest by air, 4h 13m · $140–210
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for El Kerma

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for El Kerma. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOne can also reach Oran by ferries from the ports of Marseilles as well as Alicante and Almería in Spain, via the national company Algérie Ferries or Trasmediterranea.

From Wikivoyage: Oran, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    429 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    595 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,288 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,350 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,677 km

If you know how people move in El Kerma – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to El Kerma

El Kerma is 11 km from Oran, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • El Brayacommune and town in Oran Province, Algeria4.9 km