Tindouf

The wilaya of Tindouf is a wilaya in the extreme west of Algeria, with its capital being the eponymous city of Tindouf. Formed in 1984 by splitting from the wilaya of Béchar, it is bordered to the north by Morocco, to the northeast by the wilaya of Béchar, to the west by the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara, to the east by the wilaya of Adrar, and to the south by Mauritania. Its area is 159,000 km², and its population was estimated at 59,898 inhabitants in 2010.