Fortress
Ksar Melika
🇩🇿 Algeria
Melika is one of the towns of the M'zab Valley, located near Ghardaïa in the northern Algerian Sahara, south of the city of Algiers. It has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Machine-translated from “مليكة” on the Arabic Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ksar Melika ranks #7,067 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #17 of the 24 mapped in Algeria. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Algeria compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Ksar Melika?
Ksar Melika stands in Algeria, at 32.4831°, 3.6867°.
Is Ksar Melika a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Yes — it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, per its Wikidata entry.
How famous is Ksar Melika?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,067 of 8,764 worldwide, and #17 in Algeria. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Ksar Melika?
Ksar Beni Isguen, about 1 km away.
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