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Geography of Algeria. Algeria comprises 2,381,740 square kilometres (919,590 sq mi) of land, more than 80% of which is desert, in North Africa, between Morocco and Tunisia. [ 2 ][ 1 ] It is the largest country in Africa. [ 1 ] Its Arabic name, Al Jazair (the islands), is believed to derive from the rocky islands along the coastline of the ...
List of countries and dependencies by area. Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which ...
Morocco is a Northern African country, located in the extreme northwest of Africa on the edge of continental Europe. The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain from Morocco with a 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) span of water. Morocco borders the North Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the western Mediterranean Sea to the north, and has borders with Algeria ...
Algeria, [ e ] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, [ f ] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Algiers (/ ælˈdʒɪərz / al-JEERZ; Arabic: الجزائر, romanized: al-Jazāʾir) is the administrative, political and economic capital and largest city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province.
The Fatimids left the rule of most of Algeria to the Zirids and Hammadid (972–1148), a Berber dynasty that centered significant local power in Algeria for the first time, but who were still at war with Banu Ifran (kingdom of Tlemcen) and Maghraoua (942-1068). [20] This period was marked by constant conflict, political instability, and ...
China National Petroleum Corporation (PetroChina) Jinzhou Petrochemical Refinery, 112,000 bbl/day. WEPEC Dalain Refinery, 200,000 bbl/day. Sinopec Jinan Company, 21,000 bbl/day. Sinopec Qilu Company Refinery, 195,000 bbl/day. Sinopec Shanghai Gaoqiao Oil Refinery, 220,000 bbl/day.
The Regency of Algiers [a] [b] was a largely independent early modern Ottoman tributary state on the Barbary Coast of North Africa between 1516 and 1830. Founded by the privateer brothers Aruj and Hayreddin Barbarossa, also known as Oruç and Khayr ad-Din, the Regency began as an infamous and formidable pirate base that plundered and waged maritime holy war on European Christian powers.