Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of
Algeria, also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Algerian
Republic, is a country in the Maghreb region of Africa. Its capital and most
populous city is Algiers. The territory of today's Algeria was the home of many
ancient cultures, including Aterian and Capsian cultures. Its area have been
ruled by many empires and dynasties, including ancient Numidians,
Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arab Umayyads and Fatimids, and Berber
Almohads and later Turkish Ottomans.
Algeria is a semi presidential republic consisting of 48
provinces and 1541 communes. With a population exceeding 37 million, it is the
34th most populated country on earth. Its economy is oil based, suffering from
Dutch disease. Sonatrach, the national oil company, is the largest company in
Africa. Algeria has the second largest army in Africa, after Egypt, and has
Russia and China as strategic allies, and arms furnisher. Algeria is the
tenth-largest country in the world and the largest in Africa, after the
secession of South Sudan on the 9th of July 2011 from Sudan, the latter being
the former biggest country in Africa. 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. Algeria is a member of the African Union, the
Arab League, OPEC and the United Nations, and is a founding member of the Arab
Maghreb Union.
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