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President:Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika
Total area:2,381,741 sq km
Language: (literary) Arabic
Population (2010est): 34,586,184
Capital and largest city:Algiers, 3,917,000
Other large cities:Oran
Official religion: Islam
Monetary unit:Dinar

Geography
Algeria bordered on the west by Morocco on the east by Tunisia and Libya and bordered on the north by The Mediterranean Sea and to the south are Mauritania, Mali, and Niger
The Saharan region, which is 85% of the country, is almost completely uninhabited. The highest point is Mount Tahat in the Sahara, which rises 9,850 ft
Government
 Parliamentary republic
History
 Phoenician traders settled on the Mediterranean coast in the 1st millennium B.C. As ancient Numidia, Algeria became a Roman colony, part of what was called Mauretania Caesariensis, at the close of the Punic Wars (145 B.C. )
Christian during its Roman period, the indigenous Berbers were then converted to Islam
Ostensibly to rid the region of the pirates, the French occupied Algeria in 1830 and made it a part of France in 1848
Algerian independence movements led to the uprisings of 1954–1955, which developed into full-scale war. In 1962, French president Charles de Gaulle began the peace negotiations, and on July 5, 1962, Algeria was proclaimed independent. In Oct. 1963