Provinces o Algerie

**[[Algerie]]** is currently dividit intae 48 wilayas (provinces), 553 daïras (circles, or kintras; see Destricts o Algerie) an 1541 baladiyahs (municipalities, in French: commune). The caipital ceety o a baladiyah, daïra, or province (which is an aa the lairgest ceety o those) aaways gies those entities thair name, even Algiers, the caipital o the kintra gae it its name (*El Djazayar*, the Arabic name for baith the ceety an the kintra).

Accordin tae the Algerian constitution, a wilaya is a territorial collectivity enjoyin economic an diplomatic freedom, the APW, or *"Popular Provincial Parliament/Provincial Popular Parliament"* (the **''A**ssemblée **P**opulaire **W**ilayale*, in French) is the poleetical entity govrenin a province, directit bi the "[[Wali]]" ([[Govrenor]]), who is chosen bi the [[Preses o Algerie|Algerian Preses]] tae haundle the APW's decisions, the APW haes an aa a preses, who is electit bi the members o the APW, which is electit bi Algerians.



The province nummers are the first 31 provinces (see the seicont section) in [[Arabic]] [[alphabetical order]], efter the addin o 17 ither provinces in 1983, the auld numberin wis kept an the 17 new provinces hae been assigned codes frae 32-48, in Arabic alphabetical order. Thare are 48 provinces (syne 1983) in Algerie, thay are:

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==1974-1983==

The 15 depairtments wur reorganized tae form 31 provinces:

<br/><small>1</small> [[Adrar Province|Adrar]]
<br/><small>2</small> [[Chlef Province|Chlef]]
<br/><small>3</small> [[Laghouat Province|Laghouat]]
<br/><small>4</small> [[Oum el-Bouaghi Province|Oum el-Bouaghi]]
<br/><small>5</small> [[Batna Province|Batna]]
<br/><small>6</small> [[Béjaïa Province|Béjaïa]]
<br/><small>7</small> [[Biskra Province|Biskra]]
<br/><small>8</small> [[Béchar Province|Béchar]]
<br/><small>9</small> [[Blida Province|Blida]]
<br/><small>10</small> [[Bouira Province|Bouira]]
<br/><small>11</small> [[Tamanghasset Province|Tamanghasset]]
<br/><small>12</small> [[Tébessa Province|Tébessa]]
<br/><small>13</small> [[Tlemcen Province|Tlemcen]]
<br/><small>14</small> [[Tiaret Province|Tiaret]]
<br/><small>15</small> [[Tizi Ouzou Province|Tizi Ouzou]]
<br/><small>16</small> [[Algiers Province|Algiers]]
<br/><small>17</small> [[Djelfa Province|Djelfa]]
<br/><small>18</small> [[Jijel Province|Jijel]]
<br/><small>19</small> [[Sétif Province|Sétif]]
<br/><small>20</small> [[Saïda Province|Saïda]]
<br/><small>21</small> [[Skikda Province|Skikda]]
<br/><small>22</small> [[Sidi Bel Abbes Province|Sidi Bel Abbes]]
<br/><small>23</small> [[Annaba Province|Annaba]]
<br/><small>24</small> [[Guelma Province|Guelma]]
<br/><small>25</small> [[Constantine Province|Constantine]]
<br/><small>26</small> [[Médéa Province|Médéa]]
<br/><small>27</small> [[Mostaganem Province|Mostaganem]]
<br/><small>28</small> [[M'Sila Province|M'Sila]]
<br/><small>29</small> [[Mascara Province|Mascara]]
<br/><small>30</small> [[Ouargla Province|Ouargla]]
<br/><small>31</small> [[Oran Province|Oran]]

==1957-1974==

Immediately efter unthirldom, Algerie retained its 15 umwhile French dépairtements, which wur renamed [[wilaya]]s (provinces) in 1968, for the maist pairt, wi some name chynges:

*9A-Alger (Algiers)
*9C-Annaba (Umwhile Bône, [[Inglis leid|Inglis]]: Bona)
*9B-Batna
*9D-Constantine
*9H-Orléansville (Then El Asnam, nou Chlef)
*8A-El Wahat (Currently Ouargla, umwhile Oasis)
*9E-Médéa
*9F-Mostaganem
*9G-Oran
*9R-Saïda
*8B-Saoura (Currently Béchar)
*9J-Sétif
*9K-Tiaret
*9L-Tizi-Ouzou
*9M-Tlemcen

==1954-1962==
Durin the [[Algerian War o Unthirldom]], the [[Naitional Liberation Front (Algerie)|FLN]] adoptit an organizational seestem dividit bi 6 numbered *wilayas'':

#Aurès
#Constantine
#Kabylie
#Algiers
#Oran
#Sahara

wi Fraunce whiles describit as a "wilaya 7".

## See an aa
*Municipalities o Algerie
*Leet o Algerian Provinces bi population
*Leet o Algerian Provinces bi aurie
*ISO 3166-2:DZ