3. History
• Algeria has been populated since 10,000
BC, as depicted in the Tassili National
Park. The indigenous peoples of northern
Africa are a distinct native
population, called the Berbers[18] by
Greeks and Romans, and then by Arabs.
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5. Location
• Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the
world and the largest in Africa, after the
secession of South Sudan on the 9th of July
2011 from Sudan, the latter being the former
biggest country in Africa.The country is bordered
in the northeast by Tunisia, in the east
by Libya, in the west by Morocco, in the
southwest by Western
Sahara, Mauritania, and Mali, in the southeast
by Niger, and in the north by theMediterranean
Sea
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9. Some more facts
• Geographic coordinates: 28 00' N, 3 00' E
• Area: total - 2,381,740 sq km, land - 2,381,740
sq km, water - 0 sq km
• Land boundaries: total - 6,343 km
• Border countries: Libya 982 km, Mali 1,376
km, Mauritania 463 km, Morocco 1,559
km, Niger 956 km, Tunisia 965 km, Western
Sahara 42 km
• Coastline: 998 km
• Note: second-largest country in Africa (after
Sudan)
10. Important info.
• President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
• - Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal
• Capital: Algiers
• Independence from France -
• Recognized 3 July 1962 -
• Declared5 July 1962
