Dar El Beïda () is a suburb of

Algiers Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008Census 14 April 2008: Offi ...

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. It is the seat of the

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with the same name. During French colonial times, it was officially called by its French name ''Maison Blanche'' (), which meant the same thing as its current Arabic name: ''(the) white house''. (This Arabic name is shared with

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in Morocco, in that case a translation from Spanish). It is pronounced in

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and in Darja. It has an area of 3200

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s (32 km²/12 sq mi). It is home to the international Houari Boumedienne Airport, the largest in Algeria. The airport is divided into two main terminals, one for international flights and the other one for domestic flights. It has 44,753 inhabitants as of the 1998 census. In 1987 it had 12,900 inhabitants.populstat.info

Economy

It is home to an

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which it shares with the neighboring municipality of Oued Smar. Historic municipal budgets include: *2003: 290 million DZD *2004: 320 million DZD *2005: 730 million DZD *2006: 750 million DZD *2007: 1.6 billion DZD

References

Suburbs of Algiers Communes of Algiers Province Algiers Province {{Algiers-geo-stub