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Also known as I-n-Salah

town in In Salah Province, Algeria

Key facts

Country
Algeria
Province
In Salah Province
District
In Salah District
Total
32,518 km (12,555 sq mi)
Elevation
293 m (961 ft)
Density
1.0000/km (2.5900/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+1 ( CET )

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Country
France
Population
32518
Area
32518
Elevation
273
Time zone
UTC+01:00
Shares border with
Tin Zaouatine
Image
InSalah(1991).jpg
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Commons category
In Salah
postal code
11220
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Encyclopedic overview

Ain Salah, officially Aïn Salah (Algerian Arabic: عين صالح, romanized: ʿīn ṣalāḥ), is an oasis town in central Algeria and the capital of In Salah Province and In Salah District. It was once an important trade link in the trans-Saharan caravan route. As of the 2008 census, it had a population of 32,518, up from 28,022 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 1.5%, the lowest in the province. The village is located in the heart of the Sahara in North Africa. The name In Salah means "good well".

Geography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “In Salah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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