Algeria | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-08

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Algeria


00:02:03 1 Etymology
00:02:31 2 History
00:02:40 2.1 Ancient history
00:07:03 2.2 Middle Ages
00:12:21 2.3 Ottoman era
00:18:50 2.4 French colonization (1830–1962)
00:23:09 2.5 The first three decades of independence (1962–1991)
00:25:25 2.6 Civil War (1991–2002) and aftermath
00:29:00 3 Geography
00:30:33 3.1 Climate and hydrology
00:31:36 3.2 Fauna and flora
00:33:23 4 Politics
00:35:32 4.1 Foreign relations
00:36:49 4.2 Military
00:38:16 4.3 Human rights
00:39:32 5 Administrative divisions
00:40:13 6 Economy
00:44:32 6.1 Hydrocarbons
00:46:39 6.2 Research and alternative energy sources
00:47:33 6.3 Labour market
00:48:17 6.4 Tourism
00:49:06 6.5 Transport
00:50:00 7 Demographics
00:51:30 7.1 Ethnic groups
00:52:54 7.2 Languages
00:54:45 7.3 Religion
00:55:27 7.4 Cities
00:55:39 8 Culture
00:56:59 8.1 Media
00:57:07 8.2 Art
00:58:01 8.3 Literature
01:00:16 8.4 Music
01:01:37 8.5 Cinema
01:03:22 8.6 Sports
01:04:58 8.7 Cuisine
01:06:45 9 Health
01:08:14 10 Education
01:11:02 11 See also



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Algeria ( (listen); Arabic: الجزائر‎ al-Jazā'ir, Algerian Arabic الدزاير al-dzāyīr; ), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb (Northwest Africa). The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest in Africa.  Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the west by Morocco, to the southwest by the Western Saharan territory, Mauritania, and Mali, to the southeast by Niger, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country is a semi-presidential republic consisting of 48 provinces and 1,541 communes (counties).
Ancient Algeria has known many empires and dynasties, including ancient Numidians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Umayyads, Abbasids, Idrisid, Aghlabid, Rustamid, Fatimids, Zirid, Hammadids, Almoravids, Almohads, Spaniards, Ottomans and the French colonial empire. Berbers are the indigenous inhabitants of Algeria.
Algeria is a regional and middle power. The North African country supplies large amounts of natural gas to Europe, and energy exports are the backbone of the economy. According to OPEC Algeria has the 16th largest oil reserves in the world and the second largest in Africa, while it has the 9th largest reserves of natural gas. Sonatrach, the national oil company, is the largest company in Africa. Algeria has one of the largest militaries in Africa and the largest defence budget on the continent; most of Algeria's weapons are imported from Russia, with whom they are a close ally. Algeria is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, OPEC, the United Nations and is a founding member of the Arab Maghreb Union.