Algeria

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (Arabic: ????????? ????????? ??????????? ???????) , or Algeria (Arabic: ???????), is a presidential state in north Africa, and the second largest country on the African continent, Sudan being the largest. It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco as well as a few kilometers of its annexed territory, Western Sahara, in the west. Constitutionally, it is defined as an Islamic, Arab, and Amazigh (Berber) country. The name Algeria is derived from the name of the city of Algiers, from the Arabic word al-jazā’ir, which translates as the islands, referring to the four islands which lay off that city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525.

External links

Government

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• El Mouradia official presidential site (in French and Arabic)
• National People's Assembly official parliamentary site
• The Embassy of Algeria in Washington, DC

News

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• allAfrica.com - Algeria news headline links
• El Khabar
• The North Africa Journal business news

Overviews

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• CIA World Factbook - Algeria
• Library of Congress - Country Study: Algeria data as of December 1993

Tourism

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• {{wikitravel}}

Other

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• Algeria Watch human rights organization critical of widespread torture practiced by the régime (in French)
• Algeria?s past needs opening, not closing Analysis on the public referendum held 29 September 2005 by Veerle Opgenhaffen and Hanny Megally