Sbaa ( ar, اﻟﺴﺒﻊ) is a town and

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Tsabit District Tsabit District is a district of Adrar Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 17,207. Communes The district is further divided into 2 communes: *Tsabit Tsabit ( ar, ﺗﺴﺎﺑﻴﺖ) is a town and commune, and ...

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 ...

, south-central

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. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 2,312, up from 1,989 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 1.5%, making it the least populated commune in the province.

Geography

The town of Sbaa and the nearby village of El Guerara lie at the very southern end of the

Gourara Tuat, or Touat, is a natural region of desert in central Algeria that contains a string of small oases. In the past, the oases were important for caravans crossing the Sahara. Geography Tuat lies to the south of the Grand Erg Occidental, to th ...

region, an area in northern

with many scattered oases. The town itself lies on the eastern and north-eastern sides of a small oasis. An oil refinery lies about to the east of Sbaa.

Climate

Sbaa 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

Sbaa lies on the N6 national highway along with the village of El Guerara to the south. The N6 highway leads north to

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and south to

Adrar Adrar (in Tifinagh script "ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ"), a Berber word meaning "mountain", is the name of several areas in Northwest Africa: Algeria * Adrar, Algeria, a town in Algeria * Adrar Province, an administrative division of Algeria * Adrar District, ...

Education

2.4% of the population has a tertiary education, and another 15.8% has completed secondary education. The overall literacy rate is 78.8%, and is 85.5% among males and 71.4% among females.

Localities

As of 1984, the commune was composed of three localities: *Sbaa *Village socialiste * El Guerara

References

Neighbouring towns and cities

{{Adrar Province Communes of Adrar Province Cities in Algeria Algeria