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Igli
إقلي | |
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Commune and town | |
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 Location of Igli commune within Béchar Province | |
  Igli Location of Igli within Algeria | |
| Coordinates: 30°27′0″N 2°18′33″W / 30.45000°N 2.30917°W | |
| Country |  Algeria |
| Province | Béchar Province |
| District | Igli District |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,220 km2 (2,400 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 507 m (1,663 ft) |
| Population (2008)[2] | |
• Total | 6,682 |
| • Density | 1.1/km2 (2.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
Igli (Arabic: إقلي) is a town and commune in Béchar Province, western Algeria, located 152 km south of Bechar. It is coextensive with Igli District. Its population was 6,682 as of the 2008 census,[2] up from 5,474 in 1998,[3] and an annual population growth rate of 2.1%.[2] The commune covers an area of 6,220 square kilometres (2,400 sq mi).[1]
Its inhabitants, along with those of the small neighbouring town of Mazzer, speak a Zenati Berber language termed tabəldit, closely related to that of other south-western Algerian ksars and of Figuig.[4]
- ^ a b "Population, Area and Density per Commune" (in French). Official Website of the Wilaya of Bechar. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
- ^ a b c "Population: Béchar Wilaya" (PDF) (in French). Office National des Statistiques Algérie. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
- ^ "Algeria Communes". Statoids. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ^ Maarten Kossmann, "Grammatical notes on the Berber dialect of Igli (Sud oranais, Algeria)", in ed. D. Ibriszimow, M. Kossmann, H. Stroomer, R. Vossen, Études berbères V – Essais sur des variations dialectales et autres articles. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 2010.