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Algeria ( Arabic : الجزائر al-Jazā'ir ; Berber : ⵍⵣⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer ), officially 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 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi) , Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world , and the largest in Africa and the Arab world . Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia , to the east by Libya , to
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 , Ottomans and the French colonial empire . Berbers are generally considered to be the indigenous inhabitants of Algeria. Following the Arab conquest of North Africa , most indigenous inhabitants were Arabised ; thus, although most Algerians are Berber in ori