Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a sovereign state in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast. Its capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the country's far north. With an area of , 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). Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been President since 1999.

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 the founding member of the Maghreb Union.

1. Is Algiers the capital of Algeria?
2. What part of Africa is it in?
3. Does it have oil reserves?
4. How does OPEC rank it?
5. What does it supply to Europe?
6. Does it have a national oil company?
7. What is its name?
8. Does Algeria have a military?
9. Is it large?
10. Where does it get its weapons?
11. Is it allied with Russia?
12. Name one of the organizations it belongs to?
13. What's another?
14. And yet another?
15. Was it ever part of the French colonial empire?
16. Are Berbers indigenous to it?
17. Name one of the ancient countries that was there?
18. And another?
19. Who is the president?
20. Since when?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. yes
2. North Africa
3. yes
4. 16th largest
5. natural gas
6. yes
7. Sonatrach
8. yes
9. largest company in Africa
10. Russia
11. yes
12. African Union
13. United Nations
14. Maghreb Union
15. yes
16. yes
17. Numidians
18. Phoenicians
19. Abdelaziz Bouteflika
20. 1999