Algeria is the second largest country in Africa and is situated in North Africa. To the north is the Mediterranean sea, by Tunisia and Libya to the east, on the southeast and south by Niger, on the south and south west by Mali, on the west by Mauritania and on the west northwest by Morocco.
Total Area:2,381,740 sq km
Capital City: Algiers
Land Borders:Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Tunisia, Western Sahara
Population: 32,930,091
Life Expectancy: 73 years
HIV % Total Poulation:0.1%
Ethnic Groups: Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1%
note: almost all Algerians are Berber in origin, not Arab; the minority who identify themselves as Berber live mostly in the mountainous region of Kabylie east of Algiers; the Berbers are also Muslim but identify with their Berber rather than Arab cultural heritage; Berbers have long agitated, sometimes violently, for autonomy; the government is unlikely to grant autonomy but has offered to begin sponsoring teaching Berber language in schools
Languages:Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects
President:Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA
GDP - Per Capita: $7,200
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