🌎 Every day a country paragraph (Algeria)
#Country:
■Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
■Short name: Algeria
■Capital: Algiers
■Language: Arabic (official), and Amazigh in the Kabylie regions.
■Highest peak: Tahat (2918 meters)
■Lowest point: Chott Melghir
■Political system: Republic
■Date of independence/National Day: July 5, 1962 (from France)
■Currency: Algerian dinar.
#Geography:
■Location: Algeria is located in North Africa, bordered to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, to the east by Tunisia and Libya, to the south by Niger and Mali, and to the west by Mauritania and Morocco
■Area: 2,381,741 square kilometers
■Natural resources: Oil, natural gas, iron ore, phosphate, uranium, lead, and zinc
■Climate: Moderate, humid winters, hot, dry summers.
#Population:
■Census: 45 million people (July 2022 estimates)
■Growth rate: 1.88% (2014 estimates)
■Ethnic distribution: 99% Arabs and Amazighs, less than 1% Europeans
■Religion: 99% Muslims, 1% other religions including Christianity and Judaism.
#Climate:
Northern Algeria has a Mediterranean climate, with a relatively mild and rainy winter, and temperatures between 21-24 degrees Celsius in summer and 02-12 degrees Celsius in winter. As for the plateaus, their rainfall is less than the north, their winters are snowy with coldness below zero degrees Celsius sometimes. Their summers are dry and hot. As for the south, its climate is desert, with refreshing nights, its summers are above 50 degrees Celsius, carrying the sirocco winds (known as the Shehili), and its winters are interspersed with seasonal rains. The rainfall rate in the north is estimated at 400-600 mm annually, increasing from west to east, reaching its maximum in the northeast of the country at a rate of 2493 mm in the Zitouna region in Skikda province.
#Economy
Main products: petroleum, gas, light industries, mining, petrochemicals, wheat, barley, olives, citrus fruits.
#General information
■It is a sovereign Arab state located in North Africa.
■ Its capital and most populous city is the city of Algiers, located in the far north of the country. ■ With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometers, it is the tenth largest country in the world, the first in Africa, the Arab world and the Mediterranean, and the second in the Islamic world after the Republic of Kazakhstan.
It is called the country of one and a half million martyrs due to the number of martyrs of the National Liberation Revolution that lasted seven and a half years.
Most Algerians live in the north of the country near the coast, due to the moderate climate and the availability of fertile lands.
According to Article 2 of the country's constitution, the official religion of the Algerian state is Islam, ■ The official and national language is Arabic, and the Amazigh language is a second official language according to what was approved by the 2016 constitutional amendment by former President Bouteflika.
