Algerie

Fowkdemocratic Republic o Algerie جمهورية الجزائر الديمقراطية الشعبية  (Arabic) Tagduda Tadzayrit Tugduyant Tagherfant  (Berber)
Banner Emblem
Motto: بالشّعب وللشّعب (Arabic) (Scots: "Bi the fowk an for the fowk")
Anthem: "Kassaman" (Scots: "We Hecht") External audio file
Location o  Algerie  (dark blue) – in Africa  (light blue & dark grey) – in the African Union  (light blue)
Capital	Algiers 36°42′N 3°13′E
Lairgest ceety	capital
Offeecial leids	Arabic
Ither leids	Berber leid (maist specifically Kabyle) (constitutionally naitional) French (business an eddication)
Ethnic groups	99% Arab-Berber 1% European an ithers
Releegion	Islam
Demonym	Algerie
Govrenment	Unitar semi-presidential republic
• Preses	Abdelaziz Bouteflika
• Prime Meenister	Abdelmalek Sellal
Legislatur	Pairlament
• Upper house	Cooncil o the Naition
• Lower house	Fowk's Naitional Assembly
Independence frae Fraunce
• Recognisit	3 Julie 1962
• Declared	5 Julie 1962
Aurie
• Tot	2,381,741 km2 (919,595 sq mi) (10th)
• Watter (%)	negligible
Population
• 2014 estimate	38,700,000 (34t)
• 2013 census	37,900,000
• Density	15.9/km2 (41.2/sq mi) (208t)
GDP (PPP)	2014 estimate
• Total	$302.476 billion
• Per capita	$7,816
GDP (nominal)	2014 estimate
• Total	$219.453 billion
• Per capita	$5,670
Gini (1995)	35.3 middlin
HDI (2013)	0.717 heich · 93rd
Siller	Algerie dinar (DZD)
Time zone	CET (UTC+01)
Drives on the	right
Cawin code	+213
ISO 3166 code	DZ
Internet TLD	.dz الجزائر.
^ The CIA World Factbook states that aboot 15% o Algeries, a minority, identifee as Berber even tho amaist aw Algeries hae Berber oreegins insteid o Arab oreegins. The Factbook explains that o the approximately 15% who identifee as Berber, maist live in Kabylie, mair closely identifee wi Berber heritage insteid o Arab heritage, an are Muslim.

Algerie (Arabic: الجزائر, al-Jazā’ir, Kabyle: Lezzayer), offeecially the Fowkdemocratic Republic o Algerie (an aa formally referred tae as the Democratic an Popular Republic o Algerie), is a kintra in North Africae. In terms o land aurie, it is the lairgest kintra on the Mediterranean Sea an Africae, an the eleivent-lairgest kintra in the warld.

Algerie is bordered in the northaest bi Tunisie, in the east bi Libie, in the wast bi Morocco, in the soothwast bi Wastren Sahara, Mauritanie, an Mali, in the sootheast bi Niger, an in the north bi the Mediterranean Sea. Its size is amaist 2,400,000 square kilometres (930,000 sq mi), an it haes an estimatit population o aboot 35.7 million (2010). The capital o Algerie is Algiers.

Algerie is a member o the Arab League, Unitit Naitions, African Union, an OPEC. It is an aa a foondin member o the Arab Maghreb Union.

Provinces an destricts

Main articles: Provinces o Algerie, Destricts o Algerie, and Municipalities o Algerie