| People's Democratic Republic of Algeria الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية (Arabic) al-Jumhūriyyatu al-Jazāʾiriyyatu ad-Dīmuqrāṭiyyatu ash‑Shaʿbiyyah | ||||||
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| Motto: بِالشَّعْبِ و لِلشَّعْبِ "Biš-šaʿb wa liš-šaʿb" "By the people and for the people" |
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| Anthem: قَسَمًا Qasaman |
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| Capital (and largest city) | Algiers | |||||
| National vernacular | Arabic Berber |
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| National vernacular | Algerian Arabic | |||||
| Religion | 99% Sunni Islam (official) <1% others |
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| Demonym | Algerian | |||||
| Government | Unitary semi-presidential republic | |||||
| - | President | Abdelmadjid Tebboune | ||||
| - | Prime Minister | Nadir Larbaoui | ||||
| - | Council President | Salah Goudjil | ||||
| - | Assembly President | Ibrahim Boughali | ||||
| Legislature | Parliament | |||||
| - | Upper house | Council of the Nation | ||||
| - | Lower house | People's National Assembly | ||||
| Formation | ||||||
| - | Numidia | 202 BC | ||||
| - | Kingdom of Tlemcen | 1235 | ||||
| - | Regency of Algiers | 1516 | ||||
| - | French Algeria | 5 July 1830 | ||||
| - | Independence | 5 July 1962 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 2,381,741 km2 919,595 sq mi |
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| Population | ||||||
| - | estimate | 46,700,000 | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2024 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $768.52 billion | ||||
| - | Per capita | $16,483 | ||||
| GDP (nominal) | 2024 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $266.78 | ||||
| - | Per capita | $5,722 | ||||
| Gini (2024) | 27.6 | |||||
| HDI (2024) | 0.763 | |||||
| Currency | Algerian dinar (DZD) |
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| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) | |||||
| Drives on the | Right | |||||
| Internet TLD | .dz .الجزائر |
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| Calling code | +213 | |||||
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The capital and largest city is Algiers, located in the far north on the Mediterranean coast.
