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Algeria

Capital: Algiers

  • Algeria covers about 2.38 million square kilometres, making it Africa's largest country and the tenth largest in the world.
  • The Sahara covers most of the country, while most of its roughly 47 million people live in the fertile, mountainous north.
  • Rock art on the Tassili n'Ajjer plateau is dated to roughly 7,000 to 10,000 years ago.
  • Algeria is divided into 69 provinces, called wilayas, and 1,541 communes.

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