- Official name
- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria الجمهورية الديمقراطية الشعبية الجزائرية · Arabic
- Capital
- Algiers
- Region
- Northern Africa
- Population (2018 est.)
- ≈ 42 million
- Area
- 2,381,741 km²
- Currency
- Algerian dinar (DZD)
- Neighbours
- Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mauritania, Mali, Morocco
- Internet / phone
- .dz, الجزائر. · +213
Where it is
Notable facts
- Algeria is the largest country in Africa and the tenth largest in the world; about four fifths of it is Sahara.
- The Tassili n’Ajjer plateau holds thousands of prehistoric rock paintings, some 12,000 years old, showing a once-green Sahara.
- It has the largest reserves of natural gas in Africa after Nigeria.
- Tamazight (Berber) became an official language in 2016 alongside Arabic.
World Heritage 7 sites
National dish
Couscousكسكس Steamed semolina grains under a stew of meat and vegetables.
Listed by UNESCO in 2020 as shared heritage of Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia, after the four submitted it jointly rather than separately.