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| Official
Name : | AL-JUMHURIYA
AL-JAZA'IRIYA AD-DIMUGRATIYA ASH-SHA'BIYA .
(People's Democratic Republic
of Algeria) |
| Land
Area: | 2,381,741
square kilometres / 919,352 square miles. |
| Population: | 31,133,000
(est 1999). Density 13 persons per square kilometre. |
| Languages: | Arabic
(official), Berber, French. |
| Religions: |
Muslim 75%, Christian 10%. |
| Capital: | Algiers
(Al Jazaïr). Population 1,722,000) |
| Currency: |
Dinar, divided
into 100 centimes. |
| Independant: | 3
July 1962, from France. |
| Geography: | The
narrow fertile coastal strip supports the bulk of the population. Farther south,
in comparitively fertile soil, the Atlas runs east-west. Further south, the sparsely
populated grassland plain of the Chott Plateau extend towards the semiarid Altas
Saharien. The southern part of the country is arid desert and is largely uninhabitated,
consisting of vast sandstone plains and plateaux traversed by valleys and then
the rocky mountains of the Hoggar. |
