Northern Africa
Flag of Algeria
A Saharan giant cradling a Mediterranean coast.
Colours, by share of the flag
- #f0f0f0 46%
- #006030 45%
- #c00030 4%
Measured from the flag artwork itself, so shares are approximate and emblems get folded into the nearest tone.
Algeria in numbers
| Official name | People's Democratic Republic of Algeria |
|---|---|
| Capital | Algiers |
| Region | Northern Africa, Africa |
| Population | 44,700,000 |
| Area | 2,381,741 km² · 19 people per km² |
| Currency | Algerian dinar (DZD) |
| Languages | Arabic, Berber |
| Country codes | DZ · DZA · .dz |
| Coastline | Has a coast |
Things worth knowing
- More than four-fifths of Algeria is Sahara, making it Africa's largest country by area yet leaving almost everyone clustered along the northern coastal strip.
- Its native Amazigh (Berber) heritage runs so deep that Tamazight sits alongside Arabic as an official language, with rock art in the Tassili n'Ajjer plateau dating back thousands of years.
- The Roman ruins of Timgad and Djemila, preserved by desert dryness, show grid-planned cities with theatres and arches as crisp as the day they were carved.
Did you know
In the heart of the Sahara, the volcanic Hoggar mountains can turn cold enough for frost, defying the cliche that the desert is hot everywhere all the time.
Neighbours
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Country data from the mledoze/countries dataset under ODbL 1.0. Flag artwork from the same dataset. All 196 flags.