Algeria
Algeria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For the unincorporated community in West Virginia, see Algeria, West Virginia . Algeria ( /ælˈdʒɪəriə/ ( listen ) al-JEER-ee-ə , Arabic : الجزائر al-Jazā'ir ), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa . The capital and most populous city is Algiers , located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world , and the largest by area in the African Union and the Arab world . [10] With an estimated population of over 44 million, it is the eighth-most populous country in Africa . Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia , to the east ...