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Commune and town in Blida Province, Algeria

Soumaâ

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

Soumaâ
Soumaâ · Bernard Gagnon
The place

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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What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Saad 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

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 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 → Soumaâ
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · $14–19
  • Béjaïa → Soumaâ
    196 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · $21–29
  • Tahir → Soumaâ
    268 km · quickest by road, 5h 37m · $29–39
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Not yet researched

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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    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

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  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    878 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

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  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

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  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

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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.

Around it

Next door to Soumaâ

Soumaâ is 9 km from Blida, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.