An astronaut explores the Mars-like landscape of Algeria’s Tassili N’ Ajjer in North Africa
Tdrart is a rocky mountains located in the Algerian state of Illizi
The state of Illizi (Illizi, Paltifinagh: ⵉⵍⵍⵉⵣⵉ and in French: Illizi), is located in the southeast of Algeria, about 1758.5451 km away from the country’s capital, and covers an area of 284618 km2 (one of nine in the area of Algeria). The state borders the state of Ouargla in the north and the state of Tamanrasset in the west, and 3 countries are to the east, Tunisia (25 km), Libya (950 km), and the south, Niger (100 km).
The closest municipality to the state headquarters is the municipality of In Amenas, 239 km away, and the farthest from the municipality of Omar Idris is 720 km. The nearest headquarters of the governorate is Ouargla, 1050 km away.
The majority of the population is concentrated in the border city of (Gant), and it has three cities: Al-Yazi (the state capital), Ain Amenas and Gantt, and some smaller districts are distinguished by the kindness of its inhabitants and the beauty of the country that contains the mountains and their generosity for the guest.
Illizi State possesses a material and cultural heritage that is considered a natural and cultural wealth, which is the National Park of Tassili, which is located in the region with an area estimated at 80000 km², and the park is located in a desert climatic zone at an altitude between 1400 m and 2000 m that provides favorable climatic conditions and is registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The state of Illizi is located in the far southeast of Algeria, occupying an area of 1/9 the area of the country. It is bounded on the north by the Algerian state of Ouargla, on the west by the state of Tamanrasset, and on the east by Ghat, Ouinat and the Libyan Nalut district, and from the south by the region of Agadez in Niger. The length of the border is 2,600 km. As for its astronomical position, it is between two latitude circles. 26.15 and 30.32 degrees north of the equator, and between longitudes 5,40 and 9,58 degrees east of the Greenwich Line. This astronomical location affected the movement of air currents and the distribution of climate and thermal areas in the state, as will come next in the climate.
The capital of the state is the city of Illizi, 2000 km from the capital, Algiers, 1050 from Ouargla, 720 from Burj Omar Idris, 293 from In Amnas, 412 from Djanet, with 3 districts and 6 municipalities drawn for a state following the administrative division of 1984 AD. The largest population of it is in the north, the Tassili Plateau extends to the south, interspersed with the valleys of the Elysian Valley, Imherwa, Gant and others
The Tassili region and the Tassili National Park are a unique center, what UNESCO called to classify it as a world heritage in 1982, and it contains primitive man’s drawings, some 8,000 years old. As for the northern regions, Hamada Tenggret and the great eastern race, the Ghadames oil basin flows 56 tons annually and imports this oil from Algeria and the regions. Central is pastoral and a vast expanse of desert, dunes, mountains and stone heights.
