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Provinces of Algeria
Algeria
is divided into 48
wilayas
(
provinces
), 553
daïras
(
circles
; see
Districts of Algeria
) and 1541
baladiyahs
(
municipalities
, in
French
:
commune
). The capital city of a baladiyah, daïra, or province (which is also the largest city of those) always gives those entities their name, even
Algiers
, the capital of the country gave it its name (
El Djazayar
, the
Arabic
name for both the city and the country).
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