Sétif (province)

Sétif
Basic data
Country	Algeria
Capital	Sétif
surface	6526 km²
Residents	1,505,000 (2006 estimate)
density	231 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	DZ-19

Coordinates: 36 ° 16 '  N , 5 ° 32'  E

The province of Sétif ( Arabic ولاية سطيف, DMG Wilāyat Saṭīf , Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⴳⴻⵣⴷⵓ ⵏ ⵙⵟⵉⴼ Agezdu n Sṭif ) is a province ( wilaya ) in north-eastern Algeria .

The province is located around 300 km east of the capital Algiers on an agricultural plateau at 1100 m above sea level, between the Kabylia and the Atlas Mountains . The area of ​​the province is 6526 km².

The province has around 1,505,000 inhabitants (2006 estimate), so the population density is around 231 inhabitants / square kilometer.

The main town and administrative seat is the middle university town of Sétif , of the 60 municipalities, the town of El Eulma also has more than 100,000 inhabitants.

literature

• Teddy Alzieu: "De Bougie à Sétif: à travers la Kabylie ". A. Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2004. 128 pp. ISBN 2-84910-148-6
• Said Madan¯i, Jordi Surinach: "Intermediate cities and sustainable development: the case of Setif - Algeria". Urban regions: governing interacting economic, housing, and transport systems, (2002), pp. 183–193. Utrecht: Koninklijk Nederlands Aadrijkskundig Genootschap
• Abdelaziz Zitouni: "Contribution à l'étude de l'influence des brise-vent sur les facteurs climatiques et la production céréalière en Algérie: (région des hautes plaines de Sétif)". Paris, Univ., Dissertation 1991. 188 Bl.
• E. Brossard: "Essai on the constitution physique et géologique des regions méridionales de la subdivision de Sétif (Algérie)". Paris, 1868

Web links

Commons : Sétif  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Geographical map of the Sétif region (2004)
• Selection menu for the province of Setif (French)