Birkhadem

Birkhadem is a town on the road from Algiers to Blida. In Arabic, bir means "well" and khadem means "servant woman", so Bir Khadem is "the well of the servant woman". It belongs to the Bir Mourad Raïs circonscription administrative, one of the 13 groups of communes created by decree 26-112 of 8 March 2026. It had 77,749 inhabitants at the 2008 census (ONS).