The wilaya of Tiaret was created according to ordinance No. 74-69 of July 2, 1974. It was endowed with 42 municipalities and 14 daïras according to the last division of 1984. The most important cities, the chief town of the wilaya, Frenda, Souguer and Ksar Chellala. Area = 20,000 km².
Located in the North-West of Algeria, 340 km from the capital, Tiaret is the meeting point between different wilayas of the country, Tissemsilt and Relizane in the North, Laghouat and EI-Bayadh in the South-East, Mascara and Saida in the South -Where is. It also shares its borders with the wilayas of Djelfa and Médéa. The strategic geographical position of the wilaya makes it a contact zone between the north and the south but also with several wilayas of the country.
Tiaret is distinguished more particularly by the diversity of its composition by the link of the Tell Atlas. The Ouarsenis in the north and the famous Djebel Amour of the Saharan Atlas in the south, world famous thanks to the high red and black wool carpet.
This is the domain of the Frenda mountains while the rest of the willaya represents the high plains extending over a certain km from Jebel Amour.
It is 219 km from Oran, 154 km from Mascara, 253 km from Mostaganem and 291 km from Laghouat. It can be reached by road, and by air:
• By road, from Algiers via Tissemsilt (RN14), Oran via Relizane (RN24) or via Mascara (RN91). Béchar via Saida (RN14), and Constantine and Sétif via Djelfa (RN40).
• By air: via Abdelhafid Boucouf airport in Bouchakif (15 km) linked to the capital by weekly shuttles.
The wilaya is also equipped with a road network linking the different localities to each other and Tiaret. These are roads of Wilayas, communal and local.