Official Name | People's Democratic Republic of Algeria الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية |
Capital and Largest City | Algiers |
Official Languages | Arabic, Tamazhight (Berber) |
Motto | بالشعب وللشعب "By the people and for the people" |
National Anthem | قَسَمًا Qassaman - "We pledge" |
Currency | Algerian Dinar (DZD) |
Driving Side | Right |
Government | Unitary Semi-Presidential republic |
Legislature | Parliament (bicameral) |
Upper House | Council of the Nation (174) |
Lower House | People's National Assembly (407) |
Highest Point | Mount Tahat (3,003m) |
National Animal | Fennec Fox |
Fun Facts
Almost 90% of the country is covered by the Sahara Desert
Algiers has the tallest minaret in the world.
The Algerian freedom struggle against the French was tough. The French jailed Moufdi Zakariah, a poet affiliated with the Algerian People's Party due to political involvements. In jail, he wrote the national anthem, Qassaman, a song about the Algerian fight for independence. Zakariah had no material to write with, so he wrote the lyrics with his own blood on the prison wall.
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