Adrar Province

Adrar Province

ولاية أدرار
Adrar Province ولاية أدرار
Province
	Map of Algeria highlighting Adrar
	Coordinates: 27°52′50″N 0°17′50″W / 27.88056°N 0.29722°W
Country	Algeria
Capital	Adrar
Government
• PPA president	Mr. Menad Mehdi (FLN)
• Wāli	Mr. Messaoud Djari
Area
• Total	424,948 km2 (164,073 sq mi)
Elevation	276 m (906 ft)
Population (2008)
• Total	402,197
• Density	0.95/km2 (2.5/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01 (CET)
Area Code	+213 (0) 49
ISO 3166 code	DZ-01
Districts	11
Municipalities	28

Adrar (Arabic: ولاية أدرار, Berber languages: ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ) is a province (wilaya) in southwestern Algeria, named after its capital Adrar. It is the second-largest province, with an area of 424,948 km², roughly the size of the US state of California. It had 402,197 inhabitants at the 2008 population census.^[1]

It is bordered by five other wilayas: to the west by Tindouf; to the north by Béchar and El Bayadh; to the east by Ghardaïa and Tamanrasset. To the south, it is bordered by Mauritania and Mali.

Adrar is composed of three natural and cultural regions: Touat (Adrar, Zaouiet Kounta), Gourara (Aougrout, Timimoune) and Tidikelt (Aoulef), and 299 ksour.

^ ^a ^b 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.

[Alg2008RGPH-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.

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