Soumaâ
Soumaâ is a town and commune in Blida Province, Algeria.

Soumaâ is a town and commune in Blida Province, Algeria. It had a population of 31,451 in 1998 and a population of 37,461 in 2008. On August 27, 1985, a group of MIA insurgents led by Mustafa Bouyali attacked a police school in the town and killed an officer.
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Worth seeing in and around Soumaâ
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.
- 01Saad Dahlab University of Blida 1
The University of Blida 1, also known as University Saad Dahlab of Blida, is a public university located in Blida, Algeria. Founded on June 20, 1977 and named after Saad Dahlab, a former Algerian political, the university did not commence operation until four years later on 8 September, 1981.
3.1 km · university in Bilda, Algeria · Wikipedia
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Getting to Soumaâ
- Airports
- Houari Boumediene (ALG), 34 km · Chlef Aboubakr Belkaid (CFK), 144 km · Soummam–Abane Ramdane (BJA), 194 km
- Stations
- Boufarik Airport, 4 km
- Chlef → Soumaâ146 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · $14–19
- Béjaïa → Soumaâ196 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · $21–29
- Tahir → Soumaâ268 km · quickest by road, 5h 37m · $29–39
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Soumaâ
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 Soumaâ. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Soumaâ – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Soumaâ
Soumaâ is 9 km from Blida, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Beni Meredtown and commune in Algeria3.9 km
- Guerrouaoucommune and town in Blida Province, Algeria2 km
- Ouled Yaïch Districtdistrict of Algeria4.7 km
- Boufarik Districtdistrict of Algeria5.8 km