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Djelfa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (228 words) |
 | Coordinates: 34°40′N 3°15′E Djelfa (Arabic: الجلفة) is the capital city of Djelfa province, Algeria. |
| Djelfa town is at a point of transition between the dry, steppelike High Plateaus of the north, with their chotts (intermittent salt lakes), and the Sahara (south). |
| North of Djelfa town there is an imposing physical feature known as Salt Rock (Rocher de Sel) that resulted from the erosion of rock salts and marls by rain, and to the west of the town Megalithic funerary structures are found. |
| Djelfa (148 words) |
| City in north-central Algeria with 170,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), in the Ouled Nail Mountains at an elevation of 1,138 metres, in an area between the salt lakes and the Sahara. |
| It is the capital of Djelfa province with 890,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate) and an area of 66,415 km². |
| Djelfa is the only large city within a radius of more than 100 km, and it serves as a market centre for livestock raised by the seminomadic Arab Ouled Naïl confederation. |
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