Wilayas d\' Algérie

The Algérie is divided into forty-eight Territorial collectivities called Wilaya S .

The wilaya, envisaged by article 15 of the Algerian constitution, is a territorial community equipped with the legal entity and financial autonomy.

It constitutes also an administrative unit of the Algerian State. It is equipped with an assembly elected called APW “Popular Assembly of Wilaya” and placed under the authority of a wali (Préfet).

The number carried by each Wilaya finds on the number plates like in the first two figures of the zip codes.

The wilayas are divided into Daïra S, which are divided, in their turn, in common.

List of the 48 wilayas of Algeria

Last Algerian administrative cutting goes back to 1985.

List of the 31 wilayas of Algeria of 1974 with 1983

The 15 wilayas resulting from French colonization pass to 31, because of Increase in population considerable during this time:

Departments then wilayas between 1962 and 1974

At the independence of the country, the old French departments are preserved. 17, they are famous wilayas by the ordinance of 1968.

Wilayas of the FLN during the War of Algeria

During the war of independence of Algeria, FLN adopts a system of organization made up of 6 wilayas :

  1. Aurès

  2. Constantine
  3. Kabylie
  4. Algiers
  5. Oran
  6. the Sahara

The metropolitan France is regarded sometimes as a seventh wilaya .

See too

  • Common of Algeria
  • Towns of Algerian Algeria
  • Daïra

External bonds

  • Geography of Wilayas d' Algérie Official site of the Presidency of the RADP.
  • zip codes and chief towns, correspondence with the 15 French departments of 1958:
  • departments of French Algeria of 1848 with 1962
  • Code of Wilaya in the Algerian right
  • Telephone of Wilayas in Algeria
  • Site of the cities and Wilayas d' Algérie
  • Gate on Algeria and its Wilayas

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