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'''Annaba''' ({{lang-ar|عنّابة}}, <small>{{abbr|lit|literally}}</small>&nbsp;"Place of the [[Jujube]]s"; {{lang-ber|Aânavaen}}),{{sfnp|''EB''|1878}}<ref name=elanabi>{{Cite web|url=http://www.el-annabi.com/IMG/article_PDF/article_a7.pdf|title=www.el-annabi.com|access-date=12 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808175851/http://www.el-annabi.com/IMG/article_PDF/article_a7.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> formerly known as '''Bon''', '''Bona''' and '''Bône''', is a seaport city in the northeastern corner of [[Algeria]], close to the border with [[Tunisia]]. Annaba is near the small [[Seybouse River]] and is in the [[Annaba Province]]. With a population of about 464,740 (2019) and 1,000,000 for the metropolemetropolitan area,<ref name="pop">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ons.dz/collections/w23_p1.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721112810/http://www.ons.dz/collections/w23_p1.pdf|url-status=dead|title=2008 census|archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref> Annaba is the third-largest city and the leading industrial center in Algeria.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zPz9FHXJVLUC&pg=PA231|title=The Report: Algeria 2008|date=2008|publisher=Oxford Business Group|isbn=9781902339092|page=231|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftFbCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA81|title=Historical Dictionary of Algeria|last=Naylor|first=Phillip C.|date=2015-05-07|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810879195|language=en}}</ref>