Provinces of Algeria

Algeria, as of 2025, is divided into 69 wilayas (provinces).^[1] Prior to November 16, 2025, there were 58 provinces. The 69 provinces are divided into 1,541 baladiyahs (municipalities). The name of a province is always that of its capital city.

According to the Algerian constitution, a wilaya is a territorial collectivity enjoying economic and diplomatic freedom, the APW, or Popular Provincial Parliament/Provincial Popular Parliament (the Assemblée Populaire Wilayale, in French) is the political entity governing a province, directed by the Wali (Governor), who is chosen by the Algerian President to handle the APW's decisions, the APW also has a president, who is elected by the members of the APW, which Algerians elect.

On November 16, 2025, the announcement was made of 11 new provinces in the Hautes Plaines and the south of the country. These 11 new provinces are Aflou, Barika, Ksar Chellala, Messaad, Aïn Oussera, Boussaâda, El Abiodh Sidi Cheikh, El Kantara, Bir El Ater, Ksar El Boukhari, and El Aricha. Creating these new provinces made the provinces of Laghouat, Batna, Tiaret, Djelfa, M'sila, El Bayadh, Biskra, Médéa, and Tlemcen, smaller.^[2]

List

By 1984 the number of Algerian provinces was fixed at 48 and established the list of municipalities or "communes" attached to each province. In 2019, 10 new provinces were added.^[3]^[4]

The province numbers are the first 31 provinces (see the second section) in Arabic alphabetical order, after the adding of 17 more provinces in 1983 and 10 more in 2019, the old numbering was kept and the 27 provinces created since 1984 have been assigned codes from 32 to 58, in Arabic alphabetical order.

The following table presents the list of provinces, showing for each its numerical code, its name (which is in every case the same as the name of the capital city of the province), the number of districts ("dairas"), the number of municipalities, its area, and its population.

Map	Code	Province	Arabic name
Map	Code	Province	Arabic name
	01	Adrar	أدرار
	02	Chlef	الشلف (الأصنام)
	03	Laghouat	الأغواط
	04	Oum El Bouaghi	أم البواقي
	05	Batna	باتنة
	06	Béjaïa	بجاية
	07	Biskra	بسكرة
	08	Béchar	بشار
	09	Blida	البليدة
	10	Bouïra	البويرة
	11	Tamanrasset	تمنراست (تامنراست)
	12	Tébessa	تبسة
	13	Tlemcen	تلمسان
	14	Tiaret	تيارت
	15	Tizi Ouzou	تيزي وزو
	16	Algiers	الجزائر
	17	Djelfa	الجلفة
	18	Jijel	جيجل
	19	Sétif	سطيف
	20	Saïda	سعيدة
	21	Skikda	سكيكدة
	22	Sidi Bel Abbès	سيدي بلعباس
	23	Annaba	عنابة
	24	Guelma	قالمة
	25	Constantine	قسنطينة
	26	Médéa	المدية
	27	Mostaganem	مستغانم
	28	M'Sila	المسيلة
	29	Mascara	معسكر
	30	Ouargla	ورقلة
	31	Oran	وهران
	32	El Bayadh	البيض
	33	Illizi	اليزي
	34	Bordj Bou Arréridj	برج بوعريريج
	35	Boumerdès	بومرداس
	36	El Tarf	الطارف
	37	Tindouf	تندوف
	38	Tissemsilt	تسمسيلت
	39	El Oued	الوادي
	40	Khenchela	خنشلة
	41	Souk Ahras	سوق أهراس
	42	Tipaza	تيبازة
	43	Mila	ميلة
	44	Aïn Defla	عين الدفلى
	45	Naâma	النعامة
	46	Aïn Témouchent	عين تموشنت
	47	Ghardaïa	غرداية
	48	Relizane	غليزان
	49	Timimoun	تيميمون
	50	Bordj Badji Mokhtar	برج باجي مختار
	51	Ouled Djellal	أولاد جلال
	52	Béni Abbès	بني عباس
	53	In Salah	عين صالح
	54	In Guezzam	عين قزّام
	55	Touggourt	تقرت
	56	Djanet	جانت
	57	El M'Ghair	المغير
	58	El Menia	المنيعة
	59	Aflou	آفلو
	60	Barika	بريكة
	61	El Kantara	القنطرة
	62	Bir El Ater	بئر العاتر
	63	El Aricha	العريشة
	64	Ksar Chellala	قصر الشلالة
	65	Aïn Oussera	عين وسارة
	66	Messaad	مسعد
	67	Ksar El Boukhari	قصر البخاري
	68	Bousaâda	بوسعادة
	69	El Abiodh Sidi Cheikh	الأبيض سيدي الشيخ
Total

Since 2025

In 2025, 11 new provinces were added. These provinces included:

2019–2025

On 26 November 2019, the Cabinet of Algeria passed a bill to add 10 more provinces, by splitting some of the larger provinces in the south of Algeria into smaller ones.^[5] Thus, the following provinces have been added on December 18, 2019:

1984–2019

In 1984, 17 new provinces were added. These provinces included:

1974–1983

The 15 departments were reorganized to form 31 provinces:

1957–1974

Immediately after independence, Algeria retained its 15 former French départements, which were renamed wilayas (provinces) in 1968, for the most part, with some name changes:

8A-El Wahat (Currently Ouargla, formerly Oasis)
8B-Saoura (Currently Béchar)
9A-Alger (Algiers)
9B-Batna
9C-Annaba (Formerly Bône, English: Bona)
9D-Constantine
9E-Médéa
9F-Mostaganem
9G-Oran
9H-Orléansville (Then El Asnam, now Chlef)
9J-Sétif
9K-Tiaret
9L-Tizi-Ouzou
9M-Tlemcen
9R-Saïda

1954–1962

During the Algerian War of Independence, the FLN adopted an organizational system divided by 6 numbered wilayas:

Aurès
Constantine
Kabylie
Algiers
Oran
Sahara

References

↑ "Algeria". The World Factbook (2025 ed.). Central Intelligence Agency.
↑ Tadjer, Rafik (2025-11-16). "Algérie : onze nouvelles wilayas créées, voici la liste". TSA (in French). Retrieved 2025-11-17.
↑ "Journal Officiel Algérie - F2019078.pdf" (PDF). www.joradp.dz. December 18, 2019. pp. 12–15. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 17, 2020.
↑ CHAFAI, Mohamed (27 November 2019). "Eleven administrative districts promoted into provinces with full prerogatives". www.aps.dz. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019.
↑ "10 New Wilayas - El Khabar" (in Arabic). No. 26 November 2019. El Khabar. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.

External links

(in French) National Statistics Office

[1] "Algeria". The World Factbook (2025 ed.). Central Intelligence Agency.

[2] Tadjer, Rafik (2025-11-16). "Algérie : onze nouvelles wilayas créées, voici la liste". TSA (in French). Retrieved 2025-11-17.

[3] "Journal Officiel Algérie - F2019078.pdf" (PDF). www.joradp.dz. December 18, 2019. pp. 12–15. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 17, 2020.

[4] CHAFAI, Mohamed (27 November 2019). "Eleven administrative districts promoted into provinces with full prerogatives". www.aps.dz. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019.

[5] "10 New Wilayas - El Khabar" (in Arabic). No. 26 November 2019. El Khabar. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.

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