Sidi Lakhdar () is a town and commune in

Mostaganem Province Mostaganem () is a province (''wilaya'') of Algeria, with a population of 892165 inhabitants in 2019, with a density of 393/square kilometers. Its capital is Mostaganem. Geography The land relief in Mostaganem Province can be divided into four ...

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

, about 300 km west of the capital,

Algiers Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008Census 14 April 2008: Offi ...

. It is the capital of Sidi Lakhdar District. According to the 1998 census, it has a population of 30,950. Under French colonial rule, the town was known as Lapasset. It changed its name in 1962.

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Communes of Mostaganem Province {{Mostaganem-geo-stub