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Ksar Melika

Algeria

Heritage status
part of UNESCO World Heritage Site
Location
Ghardaia
Coordinates
32.4831°, 3.6867°
Ksar Melika in Algeria
Photo: Takiva · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

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.

In the rankings

Ksar Melika ranks #7,134 of 9,040 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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