Portal:Algeria

Topics Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology File:GM AlgeriaPortal02v02.jpg Location on the world map Algeria (Formal Arabic: الجزائر, al-Jazā’ir; in Tamazight: Dzayer; French: Algérie), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. In terms of land area, it is the largest country on the Mediterranean Sea, the largest on the African continent, and the tenth-largest in the world. Algeria is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, a few kilometers of the Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara in the southwest, Morocco in the west and northwest, and the Mediterranean Sea in the north. Its size is almost 2,400,000 km2, and it has an estimated population of about 35,700,000 as of January 2010. The capital of Algeria is Algiers. Algeria is a member of the United Nations, African Union, and OPEC. It also contributed towards the creation of the Maghreb Union. Selected article Tassili n'Ajjer Landsat The Tassili n'Ajjer is a mountain range in the Sahara desert in southeast Algeria. It extends about 500 km from east-south-east to , and the highest point is Adrar Afao, 2158 m, at . The nearest town is Djanet, about 10 km southwest of the range. Much of the range, including the cypresses and archaeological sites (see below), is protected in a National park, Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site, named the Tassili n'Ajjer National Park. The range is composed largely of sandstone. Erosion in the area has resulted in nearly 300 natural rock arches being formed, along with many other spectacular landforms. Read more... Selected picture 300px Credit: Mycondor34 Coast between Béjaïa and Jijel in Algeria WikiProject Algeria WikiProject Africa 18px WikiProject Islam Selected biography 120px Adel Abdessemed', (born 1971 in Constantine, Algeria) is a conceptual artist who lives and works in Paris, France. He is represented by David Zwirner, New York, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv and Christine König Galerie, Vienna. Abdessemed attended the École des Beaux-Arts de Batna, and Algiers, Algeria from 1987 to 1994. Due to political unrest in Algeria, he moved to Lyon, France in 1994. He continued his fine arts education at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, before completing his studies in Paris, France in 2000. The following year, he enrolled at the International Studio Program at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. (Read more...) Template:/box-header Template:/Related portals Template:/box-footer The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject: What are portals? List of portals Featured portals