a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with
Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in
Africa, the
Arab World and of the countries bordering the
Mediterranean Sea; it is also the tenth-largest country in the world.
[12] The country is bordered in the northeast by
Tunisia, in the east by
Libya, in the west by
Morocco, in the southwest by
Western Sahara,
Mauritania, and
Mali, in the southeast by
Niger, and in the north by the Mediterranean Sea. Its size is almost 2,400,000 square kilometres (926,645 sq mi) with an estimated population of 36.3 million as of 2011.
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