Djelfa vs La Banda

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Djelfa (Arabic: الجلفة‎, romanized: al-Ǧilfah is the capital city of Djelfa Province, Algeria and the site of ancient city and former bishopric Fallaba, which remains a Latin catholic titular see.

It has a population of 339,248 (2008 census). The city lies at the junction of the N1 and the N46 roads.

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La Banda is a city in the province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. It has about 95,000 inhabitants as per the 2001 census [INDEC], making it the second largest in the province. It is the head town of the Banda Department. La Banda is located only 8 km away from the provincial capital Santiago del Estero, separated from it by the course of the Dulce River, which is crossed by two connecting bridges. The two cities form a metropolitan area with about 280,000 inhabitants.

Close to it, the Dulce is turned into an artificial lake by the Los Quiroga Dam. Besides the access to National Route 9 through Santiago del Estero, the city is linked to Tucumán and to Buenos Aires by a weekly train service of the Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre. La Banda is the birthplace of the infamous former provincial governor and caudillo Carlos Arturo Juárez.

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