Boumerdes:
Boumerdès (Arabic: بومرداس ; Kabyle:  ) is the capital city of Boumerdès Province, Algeria. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea.
Boumerdès (in arabic : بومرداس) is a seaside city located in the north of Algeria about 50km east of Algiers. Its previous name, during french occupation of Algeria, is "Rocher Noir", translated from french as Black Rock.
It is the capital city of wilaya (district) of Boumerdès. The city had a major earthquake on May 21, 2003 causing a lot of dammage to the city with 1382 people killed and 3442 injured. The city became the the capital of the province having the same name according to the administrative division in 1984.
The city is famous as a scientific center including a number of national institutes and the University of M'hamed Bouguerra.
The institutes include l'Institut Algerian du Petrole (The Algerian Petroleum Institute IAP), Faculty des Hydraucarbures et de la Chimie (Faculty of Hydroncarbons and Chemistry FHC), l'Institut National d'Eletrecite et d'Electronqiue (The National Institute for Electricity and Electronics INELEC), l'Institut National de Genie Mechanique (The National Institute of Mechanical Engineering ENGM), l'Institut National des Industries Legeres (The National Institute for Light Industries INIL).
The city is also know as an industrial center containing the headquaters of Sonatrach Exploration, l'Entreprise Nationale de Geophysique (ENAGEO), and Le Centre de Recherches et de Developpement (Rsearch and Developement Center for Sonatrach CRD).
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