Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria Al-Jumhuriyah al-Jaza'iriyah ad-Dimuqratiyah ash-Sha'biyah CAPITAL: Algiers (Alger) FLAG: The national flag consists of two equal vertical stripes, one green and one white, with a red crescent...

Algeria POPULATION 32,277,942MUSLIM 97 percentCHRISTIAN AND JEWISH 1 percentATHEIST 2 percent Country Overview Introduction The People 1962. New York: Knopf, 1980. Willis, Michael. The Islamist Challenge in Algeria: A Political History. New York: New...

Algeria Algeria is the second largest country in Africa, after Sudan. It is located in the northern part of the continent, in the southwestern Mediterranean region known as the Maghrib (Arabic, meaning...

large, predominantly Muslim country of North Africa. From the Mediterranean coast, along which most of its people live, Algeria extends southward deep into the heart of the Sahara, a forbidding desert where the Earth's hottest surface temperatures have...

Country, North Africa. Area: 919,595 sq mi (2,381,741 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 32,854,000. Capital: Algiers. Most of the population is ethnically and linguistically Arab, with a large Berber (Amazigh) minority. Languages: Arabic, Berber (both...

Algeria (Arabic: اÙ"جزائر, Al Jaza'ir IPA: [ÉlʤÉËzÉËÊ"ir], Berber: , Dzayer [ldzæjÉr]), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is the second largest country on the African continent[1] and the 11th largest country in the...