Adrar Province
Adrar (, ) is a province ('' wilaya'') in southwestern Algeria, named after its capital Adrar. It is the second-largest province, with an area of 254 000 km2, roughly the size of the US state of Wyoming. It had 401.297 inhabitants at the ...
, south-central
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 4,417, up from 3,160 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 3.5%.
Geography
The town of Tit lies at an elevation of on the northern side of an
oasis
In ecology, an oasis (; : oases ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environmentTamanrasset Province to the east. The oasis is a part of the Tidikelt region of the central Sahara that extends from central eastern Adrar Province (where Tit is located) to northeast Tamanrasset Province around In Salah. The oases in this region are sparser than in the Tuat and Gourara regions in which most of the population of Adrar Province live, but there are still a number of towns such as Aoulef, Timokten, Akabli, and In Ghar. The nearby land is mostly flat aside from some small hills to the east; however further north the land rises to the Tademaït plateau.
Climate
Tit has a hot
desert climate
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Köppen climate classification
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''BWh''), with extremely hot summers and mild winters, and very little
precipitation
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throughout the year.
Transportation
Tit is connected by a long road to the N52 national highway, which connects it to Aoulef and eventually Adrar to the west and In Salah to the east.
Education
7.0% of the population has a tertiary education, and another 22.9% has completed secondary education. The overall literacy rate is 92.8%, and is 96.7% among males and 89.3% among females; all three rates are the highest in the province for any commune.
Localities
As of 1984, the commune was composed of one locality, Tit.