Dar El Beïda


Dar El Beïda is a suburb of Algiers, Algeria. It is the seat of the district with the same name. During French colonial times, it was officially called by its French name Maison Blanche, which meant the same thing as its current Arabic name: white house.. It is pronounced in Classical Arabic and in Darja.
It has an area of 3200 hectares. It is home to the international Houari Boumedienne Airport, the largest in Algeria. The airport is divided into two main terminals, one for international flights and the older one for domestic flights.
It has 44,753 inhabitants as of the 1998 census. In 1987 it had 12,900 inhabitants.

Economy

It is home to an industrial park which it shares with the neighboring municipality of Oued Smar. Historic municipal budgets include: