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Oued Righ

gergraphic Area in Algeria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ3358047 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Oued Righ (also spelled Oued Rir', Oued Rirh, Wadi Righ) is a region of the northeastern Algerian Sahara. It includes a number of oases, the principal centre being Touggourt. Some of these oases speak Oued Righ Berber.

Groundwater is used for irrigation in the region.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Oued Righ” as gergraphic Area in Algeria. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oued, Righ and gergraphic.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 46-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Oued, Righ and gergraphic providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Oued Righ”, the useful work is to connect “gergraphic Area in Algeria” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3358047. Authority coordinates are 33.500, 6.000. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oued Righ” 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.