Bab Ezzouar is located some 12 km (7.5 mi) east by south-east of Algiers city just south of Bordj El Kiffan.

[1] The commune is served by the Algiers tramway which runs from the town to Bordj el Kiffan, including: [1] Bab Ezzouar is a city made up of Commuter towns built successively since the late 1970s on an ancient marshy plain with unplanned subdivisions emerging since the 1990s.

The commune consists of 8 different cities which are: Also several Housing Estates: The area was known as Retour de la Chasse (Return from Hunting) during French colonial times.

At that time there were two hamlets: one French, along the old national road to Algiers airport, and another named Sid M'hamed off the motorway behind the current Cité du 8 Mai 1945.

It includes an Hotel Mercure and Ibis and has offices for Mobilis, Algérie Poste, CMA CGM, and Air Algerie in the shopping centre.