The largest country in Africa and the tenth largest in the world; more than four-fifths of it is Sahara.
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Algeria
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria ยท ุงูุฌุฒุงุฆุฑ
Africa
ยท Northern Africa
0Population
2.38Mkmยฒ of land
$3.97KGDP / person
AlgiersCapital
- ISO codes
- DZ ยท DZA
- Density
- 18 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Algerian dinar (DZD)
- Dial code
- +213
- Internet domain
- .dz
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 27.3970ยฐ N, 2.8080ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Algerian
- UN region
- Northern Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $171.09B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 7
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By the numbers
How Algeria stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
34th
of 242 ยท 0.56% of world population
Land area
11th
of 242 ยท 1.59% of world land
GDP per person
159th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
196th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Algeria
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 43,053,054 people, the 34th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.56 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 2,381,741 kmยฒ, making it the 11th largest country here - about 9.8 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 18 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Algiers, at 36.77ยฐ N, 3.05ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 3,354,000.
Shares land borders with 6 countries: Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mauritania and Mali (and 1 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Algiers.
The currency is the Algerian dinar (DZD, symbol ุฏ.ุฌ).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Algiers
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UTC+01:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Algiers
Alger
36.7650ยฐ N, 3.0486ยฐ E
3.35M
2
Oran
Oran
35.7119ยฐ N, 0.6219ยฐ W
798K
3
Constantine
Constantine
36.3600ยฐ N, 6.5999ยฐ E
605.18K
4
Annaba
Annaba
36.9200ยฐ N, 7.7600ยฐ E
503.52K
5
Ghardaia
Ghardaaa
32.4900ยฐ N, 3.6700ยฐ E
125.48K
6
Tamanrasset
Tamanghasset
22.7850ยฐ N, 5.5228ยฐ E
76K
Land neighbours
6 countries share a border with Algeria.