Deldoul ( ar, دﻟﺪول) is a commune in

Aougrout District Aougrout District is a district of Timimoun Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 28,869. Communes The district is further divided into 3 communes: *Aougrout Aougrout ( ar, أوﻗﺮت) is a commune in Aougro ...

Adrar Province Adrar ( ar, ولاية أدرار, ber, ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ) is a province (''wilaya'') in southwestern Algeria, named after its capital Adrar. It is the second-largest province, with an area of 424,948 km2, roughly the size of the US state o ...

, in south-central

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. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 8,647, up from 7,465 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 1.5%.

Geography

Deldoul commune is centered on a set of oases in the south-central

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region of northern Adrar Province, southwest of

Timimoun Timimoun ( ar, ﺗﻴﻤﻴﻤﻮن) is a town and commune, and capital of Timimoun District, in Adrar Province, south-central Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 33,060, up from 28,595 in 1998, with an annual growth rate ...

, southeast of

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, west of

Aougrout Aougrout ( ar, أوﻗﺮت) is a commune in Aougrout District, Adrar Province, in south-central Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 11,784, up from 9,878 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 1.8%. Geography The popu ...

and northeast of

Metarfa Metarfa ( ar, المطارفة) is a town and commune in Aougrout District, Adrar Province, in south-central Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 8,438, up from 7,061 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 1.8%. Geography ...

. The surrounding areas generally consist of rocky plains mixed with low

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Climate

Deldoul has a hot

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''BWh''), with extremely hot summers and mild winters, and very little

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throughout the year.

Transportation

A road connects the main villages in the commune from Bel Rhazi in the north to Ouled Abbou in the south. The main road out of the area leads east from Ouled Abbou to

Education

3.3% of the population has a tertiary education, and another 10.8% has completed secondary education. The overall literacy rate is 74.4%, and is 88.3% among males and 60.6% among females.

Localities

As of 1984, the commune was composed of 11 localities: * Ouled Abbou *Aourir *Akbour * El Mansour *El Hadbane * Igosten *

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