Algerie

Fowkdemocratic Republic o Algerie
الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشّعبية  (Arabic)
al Jumhuriyya al Jazā'iriyya ad-Dīmuqrāţiyya ash Sha'biyya

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Naitional motto: " بالشّعب وللشّعب "  (Arabic) "Bi the fowk an for the fowk"
Offeecial leid	Arabic
Caipital	Algiers
Lairgest ceety	caipital
Govrenment Heid o State - Prime Meenister -	Semi-presidential republic Preses Abdelaziz Bouteflika Ahmed Ouyahia
Area	2,381,741 km2 919,595 sq mi
Population	34,895,000
Foondin	3 Julie 1962
Siller	Algerien dinar (DZD)
Time zone	UTC+01
Naitional anthem	" قسمًا " (Arabic) We Pledge
Naitional flouer
Patron saunt
Internet TLD	.dz
Cawin code	213

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 airticle: Provinces o Algerie