Algeria

Algeria is the largest country in . Overlooked by many travellers, the country is bursting with beauty waiting to be discovered. From the bustling markets of Algiers to the pristine beaches of its Mediterranean coast, from the jaw-droppingly beautiful mountains of the north to the mesmerising deep reaches of the Sahara desert to the south, there is something for almost everyone to explore.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Algiers and Oran.

is the capital and largest city of Algeria, set along the Mediterranean coast. Known for its striking French colonial architecture, the city reveals layers of history shaped by Ottoman rule, French colonialism and Algerian independence.

is the second largest city in Algeria and the capital of province, with more than 1,500,000 people.

, the "City of Bridges", is a city in and the capital of Province. Considered the 'capital' of eastern Algeria, is Algeria's third-largest city and a common stop for travellers.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Northeast Algeria and Central Algeria.

is the extensive mountains and high plains region east of .

is the metropolitan area surrounding , the capital of Algeria, on the Mediterranean coast.

The Algerian Desert is a desert located in central within Algeria, constituting part of the . The desert covers more than 90% of Algeria's total area.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
The is the range of the inland of the high plateaus in northern Algeria.

Algeria

Latitude of center
28.6° or 28° 36′ north
Longitude of center
2.7° or 2° 42′ east
Population
40,300,000
Area
2,381,740 km² (919,595 miles²)
Elevation
494 metres (1,621 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dinar (DZD)
Phone code
.dz
Internet domain
213
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2589581
Wiki­data ID
Q262
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Algeria” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: Алжир
  • Achinese: Aljazair
  • Adyghe: Алжир
  • Afrikaans: Algeria
  • Afrikaans: Algerië
  • Akan: Ɔlgyeria
  • Albanian: Algjeri
  • Albanian: Algjeria
  • Algerian Arabic: الدزاير
  • Algerian Arabic: جَزايَر
  • Algerian Arabic: لالجيري
  • Amharic: አልጄሪያ
  • Amis: Algeria
  • Amis: Arciliya
  • Angika: अल्जीरिया
  • Arabic: الجزائر
  • Arabic: الجزاير
  • Arabic: الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية
  • Arabic: الدزاير
  • Arabic: دزاير
  • Aragonese: Alcheria
  • Armenian: Ալժիր
  • Armenian: Ալժիրի Ժողովրդական Ժողովրդավարական Հանրապետություն
  • Arpitan: Alg·èrie
  • Arpitan: Algèrie
  • Assamese: আলজেৰিয়া
  • Asturian: Arxelia
  • Asturian: República Democrática Popular d’Arxelia
  • Atayal: Algeria
  • Aymara: Alhirya
  • Azerbaijani: Cezayır
  • Azerbaijani: Əlcəzair
  • Balinese: Algéria
  • Balinese: Aljazair
  • Bambara: Alizeri
  • Bambara: Aljeri
  • Banjar: Aljajair
  • Bashkir: Алжир
  • Bashkir: Әлжәзәир
  • Basque: Aljeria
  • Batak Mandailing: Aljasair
  • Batak Toba: Aljazair
  • Bavarian: Algerien
  • Belarusian: Алжыр
  • Belarusian: Альжыр
  • Bengali: আলজেরিয়া
  • Bengali: এলজিরিয়া
  • Betawi: Aljajaèr
  • Bhojpuri: अल्जीरिया
  • Bishnupriya: আলজেরিয়া
  • Bislama: Aljiria
  • Bosnian: Alžir
  • Breton: Aljeria
  • Buginese: Aljazair
  • Buginese: ᨕᨒᨍᨍᨕᨗᨑ
  • Bulgarian: Алжир
  • Bulgarian: Алжирска народно-демократична република
  • Burmese: အယ်လ်ဂျီးရီးယား
  • Burmese: အယ်လ်ဂျီးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ
  • Catalan: Algèria
  • Catalan: República Algeriana Democràtica i Popular
  • Catalan: República d’Algèria
  • Catalan: República Democràtica Popular d’Algèria
  • Cebuano: Arhelya
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: Lezayer
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: Tagduda Tazzayrit Tamagdayt Tagherfant
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔ
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵍⴻⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⴳⴷⴰⵢⵜ ⵜⴰⵖⵔⴼⴰⵏⵜ ⵜⴰⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔⵉⵜ
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰ ⵜⴰⵣⵣⴰⵢⵔⵉⵜ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⴳⴷⴰⵢⵜ ⵜⴰⵖⵔⴼⴰⵏⵜ
  • Central Bikol: Algerya
  • Central Kanuri: Algeria
  • Central Kurdish: جەزائیر
  • Chamorro: Aljiria
  • Chavacano: Argelia
  • Chechen: Алжазаира
  • Chechen: Алжир
  • Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏥᎵᏯ
  • Chinese: Āěrjílìyà
  • Chinese: Algeria
  • Chinese: 阿尔及利亚 / 阿爾及利亞
  • Chinese: 阿尔及利亚
  • Chinese: 阿尔及利亚人民民主共和国
  • Chinese: 阿尔及利亚民主人民共和国
  • Chinese: 阿爾及利亞
  • Chinese: 阿爾及利亞人民民主共和國
  • Church Slavic: Алджаꙁаиръ
  • Chuvash: Алжир
  • Cornish: Aljeri
  • Corsican: Algeria
  • Corsican: Alghjeria
  • Corsican: Republica Demucratica Populare di Algeria
  • Corsican: Ripublica Demucratica Populare di Alghjeria
  • Crimean Tatar: Cezair
  • Croatian: Alžir
  • Czech: Alžírská demokratická a lidová republika
  • Czech: Alžírsko
  • Dagbani: Algeria
  • Danish: Algeriet
  • Danish: Den demokratiske folkerepublik Algeriet
  • Dhivehi: ޖަޒާއިރު
  • Dimli (individual language): Cezayir
  • Dinka: Algeria
  • Dotyali: अल्जेरिया
  • Dutch: Algerije
  • Dutch: Democratische Volksrepubliek Algerije
  • Dzongkha: ཨལ་ཇི་རི་ཡ།
  • Dzongkha: ཨཱལ་ཇི་རི་ཡ
  • Eastern Mari: Алжир
  • Egyptian Arabic: الجزاير
  • Erzya: Алжир
  • Esperanto: Alĝerio
  • Esperanto: Popola kaj Demokratia Respubliko Alĝerio
  • Estonian: AlĪeeria
  • Estonian: Alžeeria
  • Ewe: Algeria nutome
  • Ewe: Algeria
  • Ewe: Ɔldzeria
  • Extremaduran: Argelia
  • Extremaduran: Argélia
  • Farefare: Algeria
  • Faroese: Algeria
  • Fiji Hindi: Algeria
  • Finnish: Algeria
  • Finnish: Algerian demokraattinen kansantasavalta
  • French: Alg.
  • French: Algerie
  • French: Algérie
  • French: dz
  • French: Dzayer
  • French: RADP
  • French: République algérienne démocratique et populaire
  • French: République algérienne démocratique populaire
  • Friulian: Alzerie
  • Fulah: Alaseri
  • Fulah: Aljeri
  • Gagauz: Aljir
  • Gagauz: Cezair
  • Galician: Alxeria
  • Galician: Arxelia
  • Galician: República Democrática e Popular de Alxeria
  • Gan Chinese: 阿尔及利亚
  • Ganda: Algeria
  • Ganda: Aligerya
  • Georgian: ალჟირი
  • German: Algerien
  • German: Demokratische Volksrepublik Algerien
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Algeria
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
  • Gilaki: ألجزایر
  • Goan Konkani: Algeria
  • Goan Konkani: आल्जेरिया
  • Gorontalo: Aljazair
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌶𐌹𐌴𐍂𐌰𐌿
  • Greek: Αλγερία
  • Greek: Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία της Αλγερίας
  • Guarani: Arhélia
  • Guarani: Ayhelia
  • Guianese Creole French: Laljéri
  • Gujarati: અલજીરિયા
  • Gujarati: અલ્જીરિયા
  • Gun: Algeria
  • Haitian: Aljeri
  • Hakka Chinese: Algeria
  • Hausa: Aljeriya
  • Hawaiian: ‘Alekelia
  • Hawaiian: ʻAlekelia
  • Hebrew: אלג’יר
  • Hebrew: אלג’יריה
  • Hebrew: אלג׳יריה
  • Hebrew: אלגיריה
  • Hebrew: אלגריה
  • Hindi: अल्जीरिया
  • Hungarian: Algéria
  • Hungarian: Algériai Népi Demokratikus Köztársaság
  • Iban: Algeria
  • Icelandic: Alsír
  • Ido: Aljeria
  • Igbo: Algeria
  • Iloko: Arhelia
  • Inari Sami: Algeria demokraatlâš aalmugtäsiväldi
  • Inari Sami: Algeria
  • Indonesian: Algeria
  • Indonesian: Aljazair
  • Indonesian: Republik Demokratik Rakyat Aljazair
  • Ingush: Алжир
  • Interlingua: Algeria
  • Interlingue: Algeria
  • Inupiaq: Aljiriya
  • Irish: an Ailgéir
  • Irish: An Ailgéir
  • Italian: Algeria
  • Italian: dz
  • Italian: RDPA
  • Italian: Repubblica Democratica Popolare di Algeria
  • Italian: Stato dell’Africa settentrionale
  • Jamaican Creole English: Aljiiria
  • Japanese: アルジェリア
  • Japanese: アルジェリア民主人民共和国
  • Japanese: 阿爾及
  • Japanese: 阿爾及利亜
  • Javanese: Algir
  • Javanese: Aljasair
  • Javanese: Aljazair
  • Kabardian: Алджазаир
  • Kabardian: Джэзаир
  • Kabiyè: Alizeerii
  • Kabyle: Lezzayer
  • Kadazan Dusun: Algeria
  • Kalaallisut: Algeriet
  • Kalmyk: Алҗрмудин Улс Орн
  • Kannada: ಅಲ್ಜೀರಿಯ
  • Kara-Kalpak: Aljir
  • Karachay-Balkar: Алжир
  • Kashmiri: اَلجیٖریا
  • Kashmiri: اؠلجیرِیا
  • Kashubian: Algieriô
  • Kazakh: Алжир
  • Khmer: ប្រទេសអាល់ហ្សេរី
  • Khmer: អាល់ហ្សេរី
  • Kikuyu: Algeria
  • Kikuyu: Aljeria
  • Kinyarwanda: Aligeriya
  • Kirghiz: Алжир
  • Komering: Aljazair
  • Komi: Алжир
  • Kongo: Algeria
  • Korean: 알제리
  • Kotava: Jazaira
  • Kurdish: Cezayir
  • Kurdish: ئەلجەزایر
  • Ladin: Algeria
  • Ladino: Ardjelia
  • Ladino: Arjelia
  • Lao: ປະເທດອານເຊຣີ
  • Lao: ອັລຈິເຣຍ
  • Latgalian: Alžireja
  • Latin: Algerium
  • Latvian: Alžīrija
  • Lezghian: Алжир
  • Ligurian: Algerîa
  • Limburgan: Algerieë
  • Limburgan: Algerije
  • Lingala: Alizɛri
  • Lingala: Aljeria
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Jazair
  • Literary Chinese: 阿爾及利亞
  • Lithuanian: Alžyras
  • Livvi: Alžir
  • Lojban: jexygu’e
  • Lombard: Algeria
  • Low German: Algerien
  • Low German: Algerye
  • Lower Sorbian: Algeriska
  • Luba-Katanga: Alijeri
  • Lule Sami: Algeria demokráhtalasj álmmukrepublijkka
  • Lule Sami: Algeria
  • Lule Sami: Algerra
  • Lule Sami: Alsjierra
  • Luxembourgish: Algerien
  • Macedo-Romanian: Algheria
  • Macedonian: Алжир
  • Madurese: Aljazair
  • Magahi: अल्जीरिया
  • Maithili: अल्जेरिया
  • Malagasy: Aljeria
  • Malagasy: Alzeria
  • Malay: Algeria
  • Malay: Aljazair
  • Malay: dz
  • Malay: Republik Demokratik Rakyat Algeria
  • Malayalam: അൾജീരിയ
  • Malayalam: അൾജീറിയ
  • Malayalam: പീപ്പിൾസ് ഡെമോക്രാറ്റിക്ക് റിപ്പബ്ലിക്ക് ഓഫ് അൾജീരിയ
  • Maltese: Alġerija
  • Maltese: l-Alġerija
  • Maltese: Repubblika Demokratika tal-Poplu tal-Alġerija
  • Manipuri: ꯑꯜꯖꯦꯔꯤꯌꯥ
  • Manx: ALG
  • Manx: Algeria
  • Manx: dz
  • Manx: DZ
  • Manx: DZA
  • Manx: yn Algear
  • Manx: Yn Algear
  • Maori: Aratiria
  • Marathi: अल्जीरिया
  • Mazanderani: الجزایر
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: الجزائر
  • Min Dong Chinese: Algeria
  • Min Nan Chinese: A-lu-che-jiah-ī-lù
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ā-lū-gè-lià
  • Min Nan Chinese: Algeria
  • Minangkabau: Aljazair
  • Mingrelian: ალჟირი
  • Mingrelian: ალჟირიშ ოკათე დემოკრატიულო რესპუბლიკა
  • Mirandese: Argélia
  • Moksha: Алжирия
  • Mongolian: Алжир
  • Moroccan Arabic: الجزائر
  • Moroccan Arabic: الدزاير
  • Moroccan Arabic: جزاير
  • Moroccan Arabic: لجازاير
  • Moroccan Arabic: لجمهورية الدزايرية
  • Moroccan Arabic: لجمهورية لجزايرية
  • Moroccan Arabic: لݣزاير
  • Mossi: Algeria
  • Nauru: Ardjiriya
  • Navajo: Ghą́ą́ʼaskʼidii Biłikahii Bikéyah Ntsaaígíí
  • Neapolitan: Algeria
  • Nepali: अल्जेरिया
  • Newari: अल्जेरिया
  • Nigerian Pidgin: Aljiria
  • North Ndebele: Aljeriya
  • Northern Frisian: Algeerien
  • Northern Sami: Algeria demokráhtalaš álbmotdásseváldi
  • Northern Sami: Algeria
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Algerie
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Den demokratiske folkerepublikken Algerie
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Algerie
  • Norwegian: Algerie
  • Novial: Algeria
  • Nyanja: Algeria
  • Obolo: Aljeria
  • Occitan (post 1500): Argeria
  • Occitan (post 1500): Republica Democratica e Populara d’Argeria
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܓܙܐܐܪ
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Algeria
  • Oriya: ଆଲଜେରିଆ
  • Oromo: Aljeeriyaa
  • Ossetian: Алжир
  • Pali: अल्जीरिया
  • Pampanga: Algeria
  • Pampanga: Arhelia
  • Panjabi: ਅਲਜੀਰੀਆ
  • Papiamento: Argelia
  • Pedi: Algeria
  • Pennsylvania German: Altschieri
  • Persian: الجزایر
  • Persian: الجزیره
  • Picard: Algérie
  • Piemontese: Algerìa
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Algeria
  • Polish: Algieria
  • Polish: Algierska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna
  • Portuguese: Argélia
  • Portuguese: Djazaïr
  • Portuguese: Dzayer
  • Portuguese: República Democrática e Popular da Argélia
  • Pushto: الجزاير
  • Pushto: الجزایر
  • Pushto: الجېريا
  • Quechua: Alhirya
  • Quechua: Argelia
  • Romanian: Algeria
  • Romanian: Republica Algeriană Democratică și Populară
  • Romansh: Algeria
  • Rundi: Alijeriya
  • Russia Buriat: Алжир
  • Russian: Алжир
  • Russian: Алжирская Народная Демократическая Республика
  • Rusyn: Алжір
  • Sakizaya: Algeria
  • Samoan: Algeria
  • Samogitian: Alžīrs
  • Sango: Alazëri
  • Sango: Alzerïi
  • Sanskrit: अल्जीरिया
  • Santali: ᱟᱞᱡᱮ.ᱨᱤᱭᱟ
  • Santali: ᱟᱞᱡᱮᱹᱨᱤᱭᱟ
  • Sardinian: Algeria
  • Sardinian: Algerìa
  • Saterfriesisch: Algerien
  • Scots: Algeirie
  • Scots: Algerie
  • Scots: Fowkdemocratic Republic o Algeirie
  • Scots: Fowkdemocratic Republic o Algerie
  • Scottish Gaelic: Aildiria
  • Scottish Gaelic: Algeria
  • Serbian: Alžir
  • Serbian: Алжир
  • Serbo-Croatian: Alžir
  • Shan: မိူင်းဢႄးၵျီးရီးယႃး
  • Shona: Algeria
  • Shona: Aljeria
  • Shona: Arujeriya
  • Sicilian: Algiria
  • Sicilian: Algirìa
  • Sicilian: Ripùbblica Dimucràtica Pupulari di Algiria
  • Sicilian: Ripùbblica Dimucràtica Pupulari di Algirìa
  • Silesian: Algeryjo
  • Silesian: Algeryjŏ
  • Sindhi: الجزائر
  • Sindhi: الجيريا
  • Sinhala: ඇල්ජීරියාව
  • Skolt Sami: Algeria demokraattlaž meertääʹssväʹldd
  • Skolt Sami: Algeria
  • Slovak: Alžírska demokratická ľudová republika
  • Slovak: Alžírsko
  • Slovenian: Alžirija
  • Slovenian: dz
  • Slovenian: Džazair
  • Slovenian: Ljudska demokratična republika Alžirija
  • Somali: Aljeeriya
  • South Azerbaijani: الجزاییر
  • Southern Sotho: Algeria
  • Spanish: Argelia
  • Spanish: Republica Argelina Democratica y Popular
  • Spanish: República Argelina Democrática y Popular
  • Spanish: Republica Democratica Popular de Argelia
  • Spanish: República Democrática Popular de Argelia
  • Sranan Tongo: Algeriakondre
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔ
  • Sundanese: Aljazair
  • Swahili: Algeria
  • Swahili: Aljeria
  • Swati: I-Alijeriya
  • Swedish: Algeriet
  • Swedish: Demokratiska folkrepubliken Algeriet
  • Swiss German: Algerie
  • Swiss German: Demokratische Volksrepublik Algerien
  • Sylheti: ꠀꠟ ꠎꠦꠞ
  • Sylheti: ꠀꠟꠎꠦꠞꠤ
  • Sylheti: ꠀꠟꠎꠦꠞꠤꠀ
  • Tachawit: Dzair
  • Tachelhit: Ddzayr
  • Tachelhit: Dzayr
  • Tagalog: Algeria
  • Tagalog: Arhelya
  • Tahitian: Areteria
  • Tajik: Алҷазоир
  • Talysh: Əlčəzajir
  • Tamil: அல்சீரியா
  • Tamil: அல்ஜீரியா
  • Taroko: Algeria
  • Tatar: Алжир
  • Tatar: Әлҗәзаир
  • Telugu: అల్జీరియా
  • Tetum: Arjélia
  • Thai: ประเทศแอลจีเรีย
  • Thai: สปป.แอลจีเรีย
  • Thai: สาธารณรัฐประชาธิปไตยประชาชนแอลจีเรีย
  • Thai: อัลจีเรีย
  • Thai: แอลจีเรีย
  • Tibetan: ཨལ་ཇི་རི་ཡ།
  • Tibetan: ཨཱལ་ཇི་རི་ཡ།
  • Tigrinya: አልጀሪያ
  • Tigrinya: ኣልጀሪያ
  • Tok Pisin: Aljiria
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻAlisilia
  • Tornedalen Finnish: Algeria
  • Tosk Albanian: Algerien
  • Tsonga: Algeriya
  • Tumbuka: Algeria
  • Tunisian Arabic: ed-dzèyer
  • Tunisian Arabic: الدزاير
  • Turkish: Cezayir
  • Turkmen: Alžir
  • Twi: Algeria
  • Tyap: A̱byin a̱niet nswat A̱li̱jeriya
  • Tyap: A̱li̱jeriya
  • Udmurt: Алжир
  • Uighur: ئالجىرىيە
  • Ukrainian: Алжир
  • Ukrainian: Алжирія
  • Ukrainian: Алжирська Народна Демократична Республіка
  • Upper Sorbian: Algeriska
  • Urdu: الجزائر
  • Urdu: الجیریا
  • Uzbek: Jazoir
  • Venetian: Alzeria
  • Venetian: Alzerìa
  • Veps: Alžir
  • Vietnamese: Algérie
  • Vietnamese: An-ghê-ri (Algeria)
  • Vietnamese: An-giê-ri
  • Vlaams: Algereye
  • Vlax Romani: Algeria
  • Vlax Romani: Aljeriya
  • Volapük: Laljerän
  • Võro: Alžeeriä
  • Walloon: Aldjereye
  • Waray (Philippines): Alherya
  • Wayuu: Alhirya
  • Welsh: Algeria
  • Western Armenian: Ալճերիա
  • Western Balochi: الجزایر
  • Western Frisian: Algerije
  • Western Mari: Алжир
  • Western Panjabi: الجزائر
  • Wolof: Alseeri
  • Wolof: Alseri
  • Wu Chinese: 阿尔及利亚
  • Xhosa: E-Algeria
  • Yakut: Алжир
  • Yiddish: אלזשיר
  • Yiddish: אלעזשיר
  • Yoruba: Àlgéríà
  • Yoruba: Àlùgèríánì
  • Yue Chinese: 阿爾及利亞
  • Yue Chinese: 阿爾及利亞人民民主共和國
  • Zeeuws: Alherije
  • Zhuang: Algeria
  • Zulu: i-Algeria
  • Zulu: I-Aljeriya
  • Zulu: IAljiriya
  • ALG
  • Algeria
  • Algerie
  • Algheria
  • Aljazair
  • Alžeeriä
  • Alžīrs
  • Argelia
  • DZ
  • DZA
  • ma Sasali
  • अल्जीरिया

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Algeria”. Photo: Daggett.fr, CC BY-SA 2.0.