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M'zab
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Africa : North Africa : Algeria : Saharan Algeria : M'zab
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M'zab is a limestone plateau in Saharan, Algeria and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its collection of desert fortress-cities are exotic to the point of surrealism. [edit] Understand[edit] CitiesM'zab is made up of five separate "cities," which essentially serve as separate urban centers of one large "Pentapolis," home to over 350,000 people.
Outside the Pentapolis of the valley, there are two other Mozabite oasis towns far to the north:
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