Algeria
Algeria is the largest country in Africa. Overlooked by many travellers, the country is bursting with beauty waiting to be discovered. From the bustling markets of Algiers to the pristine beaches of its Mediterranean coast, from the jaw-droppingly beautiful mountains of the north to the mesmerising deep reaches of the Sahara desert to the south, there is something for almost everyone to explore.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Algiers
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Algiers is the capital of Algeria as well as the country's largest city.
Oran
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Oran is the second largest city in Algeria and the capital of Oran province, with more than 1,500,000 people.
Constantine
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Constantine is a city in Northeast Algeria and the capital of Constantine Province.
Destinations
Northeast Algeria
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Northeast Algeria is the extensive mountains and high plains region east of Algiers.
Saharan Algeria
The Algerian Desert is a desert located in central North Africa within Algeria, constituting part of the Sahara.Central Algeria
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Central Algeria is the metropolitan area surrounding Algiers, the capital of Algeria, on the Mediterranean coast.
Northwest Algeria
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Northwest Algeria is the mountainous coastal area west of Algiers.
Saharan Atlas
The Saharan Atlas is the range of the Atlas Mountains inland of the high plateaus in northern Algeria.Algeria
- Type: Country with 40,300,000 residents
- Description: country in North Africa
- Language: Arabic
- Neighbors: Italy, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Spain, Tunisia and Western Sahara
- Categories: sovereign state, Mediterranean country, people's republic and locality
- Location: North Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
28.6° or 28° 36' northLongitude of centre
2.7° or 2° 42' eastPopulation
40,300,000Area
2,381,740 km² (919,595 miles²)Elevation
494 metres (1,621 feet)Capital
AlgiersCurrency
Dinar (DZD)Phone code
.dzInternet domain
213OpenStreetMap ID
node 432424926OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
2589581Wikidata ID
Q262Algeria Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Lezzayer
- Abkhazian: Алжир
- Achinese: Aljazair
- Adyghe: Алжир
- Afar: Aljir
- Afrikaans: Algeria
- Afrikaans: Algerië
- Akan: Algeria
- Akan: Ɔlgyeria
- Albanian: Algjeri
- Albanian: Algjeria
- Algerian Arabic: الدزاير
- Algerian Arabic: جَزايَر
- Algerian Arabic: لالجيري
- Amharic: Arciliya
- Amharic: አልጄሪያ
- Amis: Algeria
- Angika: अल्जीरिया
- Arabic: Alherya
- Arabic: الجزائر
- Arabic: الجزاير
- Arabic: الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية
- Arabic: الدزاير
- Arabic: دزاير
- Aragonese: Alcheria
- Armenian: Ալժիր
- Armenian: Ալժիրի Ժողովրդական Ժողովրդավարական Հանրապետություն
- Armenian: Ալճերիա
- Arpitan: Alg·èrie
- Arpitan: Algèria
- Assamese: আলজেৰিয়া
- Asturian: Arxelia
- Asturian: DZ
- Asturian: DZA
- Asturian: República Democrática Popular d'Arxelia
- Atayal: Algeria
- Avaric: Jazaira
- Aymara: Alhirya
- Azerbaijani: Cezayır
- Azerbaijani: Əlcəzair
- Balinese: Algéria
- Balinese: Aljazair
- Bambara: Alizeri
- Bambara: Aljeri
- Banjar: Aljajair
- Bashkir: Алжир
- Basque: Aljeria
- Bavarian: Algerien
- Belarusian: Алжыр
- Belarusian: Альжыр
- Bengali: আলজেরিয়া
- Bengali: এলজিরিয়া
- Bhojpuri: अल्जीरिया
- Bishnupriya: আলজেরিয়া
- Bislama: Aljiria
- Bosnian: Alžir
- Breton: Aljeria
- Buginese: Aljazair
- Buginese: ᨕᨒᨍᨍᨕᨗᨑ
- Bulgarian: Алжир
- Bulgarian: Алжирска народно-демократична република
- Burmese: အယ်လ်ဂျီးရီးယား
- Burmese: အယ်လ်ဂျီးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Algèria
- Catalan: República Algeriana Democràtica i Popular
- Catalan: República Democràtica Popular d'Algèria
- Catalan: República d'Algèria
- Cebuano: Arhelya
- Central Atlas Tamazight: Lezayer
- Central Atlas Tamazight: Tagduda Tazzayrit Tamagdayt Tagherfant
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔ
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵍⴻⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⴳⴷⴰⵢⵜ ⵜⴰⵖⵔⴼⴰⵏⵜ ⵜⴰⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔⵉⵜ
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰ ⵜⴰⵣⵣⴰⵢⵔⵉⵜ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⴳⴷⴰⵢⵜ ⵜⴰⵖⵔⴼⴰⵏⵜ
- Central Bikol: Algerya
- Central Kurdish: جەزائیر
- Chavacano: Argelia
- Chechen: Алжазаира
- Chechen: Алжир
- Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏥᎵᏯ
- Chinese: Algeria
- Chinese: Āěrjílìyà
- Chinese: 阿尔及利亚 / 阿爾及利亞
- Chinese: 阿尔及利亚
- Chinese: 阿尔及利亚人民民主共和国
- Chinese: 阿尔及利亚民主人民共和国
- Chinese: 阿爾及利亞
- Chinese: 阿爾及利亞人民民主共和國
- Chuvash: Алжир
- Cornish: Aljeri
- Corsican: Algeria
- Corsican: Alghjeria
- Corsican: Republica Demucratica Populare di Algeria
- Corsican: Ripublica Demucratica Populare di Alghjeria
- Crimean Tatar: Cezair
- Croatian: Alžir
- Czech: Alžírsko
- Czech: Alžírská demokratická a lidová republika
- Dagbani: Algeria
- Danish: Algeriet
- Danish: Den demokratiske folkerepublik Algeriet
- Dhivehi: ޖަޒާއިރު
- Dimli (individual language): Cezayir
- Dinka: Algeria
- Dotyali: अल्जेरिया
- Dutch: Algerije
- Dutch: DZ
- Dutch: DZA
- Dutch: Democratische Volksrepubliek Algerije
- Dzongkha: ཨལ་ཇི་རི་ཡ།
- Dzongkha: ཨཱལ་ཇི་རི་ཡ
- Eastern Mari: Алжир
- Egyptian Arabic: الجزاير
- English: ALG
- English: Djazaïr
- English: Dzayer
- English: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
- English: People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
- English: dz
- Erzya: Алжир
- Esperanto: Alĝerio
- Esperanto: Popola kaj Demokratia Respubliko Alĝerio
- Estonian: AlĪeeria
- Estonian: Alžeeria
- Ewe: Algeria
- Ewe: Algeria nutome
- Ewe: Ɔldzeria
- Extremaduran: Argelia
- Extremaduran: Argélia
- Farefare: Algeria
- Faroese: Algeria
- Fiji Hindi: Algeria
- Finnish: Algeria
- Finnish: Algerian demokraattinen kansantasavalta
- French: Alg.
- French: Algerie
- French: Algérie
- French: DZ
- French: Dzayer
- French: RADP
- French: République algérienne démocratique et populaire
- French: dz
- French: la République algérienne démocratique populaire
- Fulah: Alaseri
- Fulah: Aljeri
- Gagauz: Aljir
- Gagauz: Cezair
- Galician: Alxeria
- Galician: Arxelia
- Galician: República Democrática e Popular de Alxeria
- Gan Chinese: 阿尔及利亚
- Ganda: Algeria
- Ganda: Aligerya
- Georgian: ალჟირი
- German: Algerien
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Algeria
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
- Goan Konkani: Algeria
- Goan Konkani: आल्जेरिया
- Gorontalo: Aljazair
- Greek: Αλγερία
- Greek: Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία της Αλγερίας
- Guarani: Arhélia
- Guarani: Ayhelia
- Guianese Creole French: Laljéri
- Gujarati: અલજીરિયા
- Gujarati: અલ્જીરિયા
- Haitian: Aljeri
- Hakka Chinese: Algeria
- Hausa: Algeria
- Hausa: Aljeriya
- Hausa: ʻAlekelia
- Hawaiian: ‘Alekelia
- Hebrew: אלג'יר
- Hebrew: אלג'יריה
- Hebrew: אלגיריה
- Hebrew: אלגריה
- Hebrew: אלג׳יריה
- Hindi: अल्जीरिया
- Hungarian: Algéria
- Hungarian: Algériai Népi Demokratikus Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Alsír
- Ido: Aljeria
- Igbo: Algeria
- Iloko: Arhelia
- Inari Sami: Algeria
- Inari Sami: Algeria demokraatlâš aalmugtäsiväldi
- Indonesian: Algeria
- Indonesian: Aljazair
- Indonesian: Republik Demokratik Rakyat Aljazair
- Ingush: Алжир
- Interlingua: Algeria
- Interlingue: Algeria
- Irish: An Ailgéir
- Irish: an Ailgéir
- Italian: Algeria
- Italian: RDPA
- Italian: Repubblica Democratica Popolare di Algeria
- Italian: dz
- Jamaican Creole English: Aljiiria
- Japanese: アルジェリア
- Japanese: アルジェリア民主人民共和国
- Japanese: 阿爾及
- Japanese: 阿爾及利亜
- Javanese: Algir
- Javanese: Aljasair
- Javanese: Aljazair
- Kabardian: Алджазаир
- Kabiyè: Alizeerii
- Kabyle: Lezzayer
- Kadazan Dusun: Algeria
- Kalaallisut: Algeriet
- Kalmyk: Алҗирмудин Улс Орн
- Kalmyk: Алҗрмудин Улс Орн
- Kannada: ಅಲ್ಜೀರಿಯ
- Kara-Kalpak: Aljir
- Karachay-Balkar: Алжир
- Kashmiri: اؠلجیرِیا
- Kashubian: Algieriô
- Kazakh: Алжир
- Khmer: ប្រទេសអាល់ហ្សេរី
- Khmer: អាល់ហ្សេរី
- Kikuyu: Algeria
- Kikuyu: Aljeria
- Kinyarwanda: Aligeriya
- Kirghiz: Алжир
- Komi: Алжир
- Kongo: Algeria
- Korean: 알제리
- Kotava: Jazaira
- Kurdish: Cezayir
- Kurdish: ئەلجەزایر
- Ladin: Algeria
- Ladino: Ardjelia
- Ladino: Arjelia
- Lao: Arhelia
- Lao: ປະເທດອານເຊຣີ
- Lao: ອັລຈິເຣຍ
- Latgalian: Alžireja
- Latin: Algerium
- Latvian: Alžīrija
- Lezghian: Алжир
- Ligurian: Algerîa
- Limburgan: Algerieë
- Limburgan: Algerije
- Lingala: Alizɛri
- Lingala: Aljeria
- Lingua Franca Nova: Jazair
- Literary Chinese: 阿爾及利亞
- Lithuanian: Alžyras
- Livvi: Alžir
- Lojban: jexygu'e
- Lombard: Algeria
- Low German: Algerien
- Low German: Algerye
- Lower Sorbian: Algeriska
- Luba-Katanga: Alijeri
- Lule Sami: Algeria
- Lule Sami: Algeria demokráhtalasj álmmukrepublijkka
- Lule Sami: Algerra
- Lule Sami: Alsjierra
- Luxembourgish: Algerien
- Macedo-Romanian: Algheria
- Macedonian: Алжир
- Madurese: Aljazair
- Maithili: अल्जेरिया
- Malagasy: Aljeria
- Malagasy: Alzeria
- Malay: Algeria
- Malay: Aljazair
- Malayalam: അൾജീരിയ
- Malayalam: അൾജീറിയ
- Maltese: Alġerija
- Maltese: Repubblika Demokratika tal-Poplu tal-Alġerija
- Maltese: l-Alġerija
- Manipuri: ꯑꯜꯖꯦꯔꯤꯌꯥ
- Manx: Yn Algear
- Maori: Aratiria
- Marathi: अल्जीरिया
- Mazanderani: الجزایر
- Min Dong Chinese: Algeria
- Min Nan Chinese: A-lu-che-jiah-ī-lù
- Min Nan Chinese: Algeria
- Min Nan Chinese: Ā-lū-gè-lià
- Minangkabau: Aljazair
- Mingrelian: ალჟირი
- Mirandese: Argélia
- Moksha: Алжирия
- Mongolian: Алжир
- Mongolian: ꯑꯜꯖꯦꯔꯤꯌꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: الجزائر
- Moroccan Arabic: الدزاير
- Moroccan Arabic: جزاير
- Moroccan Arabic: لجازاير
- Moroccan Arabic: لجمهورية الدزايرية
- Moroccan Arabic: لجمهورية لجزايرية
- Moroccan Arabic: لݣزاير
- Mossi: Algeria
- Nauru: Ardjiriya
- Navajo: Ghą́ą́ʼaskʼidii Biłikahii Bikéyah Ntsaaígíí
- Nepali: अल्जेरिया
- Newari: अल्जेरिया
- Nigerian Pidgin: Aljiria
- North Ndebele: Aljeriya
- Northern Frisian: Algeerien
- Northern Sami: Algeria
- Northern Sami: Algeria demokráhtalaš álbmotdásseváldi
- Norwegian: Algerie
- Norwegian Bokmål: Algerie
- Norwegian Bokmål: Den demokratiske folkerepublikken Algerie
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Algerie
- Novial: Algeria
- Nyanja: Algeria
- Occitan (post 1500): Argeria
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܓܙܐܐܪ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Algeria
- Oriya: ଆଲଜେରିଆ
- Oromo: Aljeeriyaa
- Ossetian: Алжир
- Pali: अल्जीरिया
- Pampanga: Algeria
- Pampanga: Arhelia
- Panjabi: ਅਲਜੀਰੀਆ
- Papiamento: Argelia
- Pedi: Algeria
- Pennsylvania German: Altschieri
- Persian: الجزایر
- Persian: الجزیره
- Picard: Algérie
- Piemontese: Algerìa
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Algeria
- Polish: Algieria
- Polish: Algierska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna
- Portuguese: Argélia
- Portuguese: República Democrática e Popular da Argélia
- Pushto: الجزاير
- Pushto: الجزایر
- Pushto: الجېريا
- Quechua: Alhirya
- Quechua: Argelia
- Romanian: Algeria
- Romansh: Algeria
- Rundi: Alijeriya
- Russia Buriat: Алжир
- Russian: Алжир
- Russian: Алжирская Народная Демократическая Республика
- Rusyn: Алжір
- Sakizaya: Algeria
- Samoan: Algeria
- Samogitian: Alžīrs
- Sango: Alazëri
- Sango: Alzerïi
- Sanskrit: अल्जीरिया
- Santali: ᱟᱞᱡᱮ.ᱨᱤᱭᱟ
- Santali: ᱟᱞᱡᱮᱹᱨᱤᱭᱟ
- Sardinian: Algeria
- Sardinian: Algerìa
- Saterfriesisch: Algerien
- Scots: Algeirie
- Scots: Algerie
- Scots: Fowkdemocratic Republic o Algeirie
- Scots: Fowkdemocratic Republic o Algerie
- Scottish Gaelic: Aildiria
- Scottish Gaelic: Algeria
- Serbian: Alžir
- Serbian: Алжир
- Serbo-Croatian: Alžir
- Serbo-Croatian: Dzayr
- Shan: မိူင်းဢႄးၵျီးရီးယႃး
- Shona: Algeria
- Shona: Aljeria
- Shona: Arujeriya
- Sicilian: Algirìa
- Silesian: Algeryjo
- Silesian: Algeryjŏ
- Sindhi: الجزائر
- Sindhi: الجيريا
- Sinhala: ඇල්ජීරියාව
- Skolt Sami: Algeria
- Skolt Sami: Algeria demokraattlaž meertääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Alžírska demokratická ľudová republika
- Slovak: Alžírsko
- Slovenian: Alžirija
- Somali: Aljeeriya
- South Azerbaijani: الجزاییر
- Southern Sotho: Algeria
- Spanish: Argelia
- Spanish: Republica Argelina Democratica y Popular
- Spanish: Republica Democratica Popular de Argelia
- Spanish: República Argelina Democrática y Popular
- Spanish: República Democrática Popular de Argelia
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔ
- Sundanese: Aljazair
- Swahili: Algeria
- Swahili: Aljeria
- Swati: I-Alijeriya
- Swedish: Algeriet
- Swedish: Demokratiska folkrepubliken Algeriet
- Swiss German: Algerie
- Sylheti: ꠀꠟ ꠎꠦꠞ
- Sylheti: ꠀꠟꠎꠦꠞꠤ
- Sylheti: ꠀꠟꠎꠦꠞꠤꠀ
- Tachawit: Dzair
- Tachelhit: Dzayr
- Tagalog: Algeria
- Tagalog: Arhelya
- Tahitian: Areteria
- Tajik: Алҷазоир
- Talysh: Əlcəzayir
- Talysh: Əlčəzajir
- Tamil: அல்சீரியா
- Tamil: அல்ஜீரியா
- Taroko: Algeria
- Tatar: Алжир
- Tatar: Әлҗәзаир
- Telugu: అల్జీరియా
- Thai: ประเทศแอลจีเรีย
- Thai: แอลจีเรีย
- Tibetan: ཨལ་ཇི་རི་ཡ།
- Tibetan: ཨཱལ་ཇི་རི་ཡ།
- Tigrinya: አልጀሪያ
- Tigrinya: ኣልጀሪያ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻAlisilia
- Tornedalen Finnish: Algeria
- Tosk Albanian: Algerien
- Tsonga: Algeriya
- Tumbuka: Algeria
- Tunisian Arabic: ed-dzèyer
- Tunisian Arabic: الدزاير
- Turkish: Cezayir
- Turkmen: Alžir
- Twi: Algeria
- Tyap: A̱byin a̱niet nswat A̱li̱jeriya
- Tyap: A̱li̱jeriya
- Udmurt: Алжир
- Uighur: ئالجىرىيە
- Ukrainian: Алжир
- Ukrainian: Алжирська Народна Демократична Республіка
- Ukrainian: Алжирія
- Upper Sorbian: Algeriska
- Urdu: الجزائر
- Urdu: الجیریا
- Uzbek: Jazoir
- Venetian: Alzeria
- Venetian: Alzerìa
- Veps: Alžir
- Vietnamese: Algérie
- Vietnamese: An-ghê-ri (Algeria)
- Vietnamese: An-giê-ri
- Vlaams: Algereye
- Vlax Romani: Algeria
- Volapük: Laljerän
- Võro: Alžeeriä
- Walloon: Aldjereye
- Waray (Philippines): Alherya
- Welsh: Algeria
- Western Armenian: Ալճերիա
- Western Balochi: الجزایر
- Western Frisian: Algerije
- Western Mari: Алжир
- Western Panjabi: الجزائر
- Wolof: Alseeri
- Wolof: Alseri
- Wu Chinese: 阿尔及利亚
- Xhosa: E-Algeria
- Yakut: Алжир
- Yiddish: אלזשיר
- Yoruba: Àlgéríà
- Yoruba: Àlùgèríánì
- Yue Chinese: 阿爾及利亞
- Yue Chinese: 阿爾及利亞人民民主共和國
- Zeeuws: Alherije
- Zhuang: Algeria
- Zulu: I-Aljeriya
- Zulu: IAljiriya
- Zulu: i-Algeria
- Aaljereya
- Al Jazā’ir
- Al Jumhūrīyah al Jazā’irīyah ad Dīmuqrāţīyah ash Sha‘bīyah
- Democratic People’s Republic of Algeria
- Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria
- La République Algérienne
- La République Algérienne Démocratique et Populaire
- L’Algérie
- L’Etat Algerien
- Republic of Algeria
- République Algérienne Démocratique et Populaire
- ma Sasali
- Джэзаир
- אלעזשיר
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