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Communes of Algeria

administrative division of Algeria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ2989398 ↗
Source-derived summary

The communes of Algeria (Arabic: بلدية (singular)), also known as municipalities, form the third level of administrative subdivisions of Algeria. As of 2002, there were 1,541 municipalities in the country. The municipalities are also known as communes (baladiyahs).

List

This list is a copy from the Statoids page named Municipalities of Algeria. The population data is from June 25, 1998.

Editorial summary

“Communes of Algeria” enters the record as administrative division of Algeria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Communes, Algeria and administrative can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Communes, Algeria and administrative.
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“Communes of Algeria” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Communes, Algeria and administrative provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2989398. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Communes of Algeria” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.