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Essential Information
Algeria is bordered on the
north by the Mediterranean Sea to the east by Tunisia and Libya to
the south by Niger and Mali, south-west by Mauritania and Western
Sahara and to the west Morocco. Algeria shares borders of 6,342
kilometers with its neighbors. The coastline is 1200km and the
Sahara occupies 80% of Algeria.
Official name: People's
Democratic Republic of Algeria
Area: 2,381,741 sq km
Population: 33,8 million (July 2008 est.)
Capital: Algiers (4.4 millions
d’habitants)
Principal Towns: Oran, Constatine, Annaba,
Stiff, Blida, Sidi Bel Abbes, Skikda, Batna, Tlemcen.
Political system:
Republican.
Languages: Arabic is the official language but French is still
widely used. Tamazight is also a
national language.
Gross Domestic Product:
$101.0 billion (2007)
GDP per capita:
$3'009 (2007)
International Reserves:
$75 billion (2007)
Climate:
The coast has a moderate climate with temperatures ranging from 13
to 32°C. The summer months of June to September can be hot and humid
with daytime temperatures registering between 27 and 32°C; these can
be exceeded, for brief periods, when the hot, dry sirocco wind blows
from the south. The Sahara desert is hot and arid with daytime
temperatures reaching 43°C while night temperatures fall to 10°C or
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Religion: Islam
Holidays: New Year's Day,
Labour Day (May 1) Independence Day (5 July); Anniversary of
the Revolution (November 1)
Religious Holidays: Eid El
Fitr, Eid El Adha, Awal Moharem, Ashura, Mawlid al-Ennabaoui.
Time: GMT+1
Money: Algerian Dinar (DA)
divided into one hundred (100) cents.
Memberships: IAEA, APPA, Badea,
ADB, Bird, BISD, CCD, IOC, WCL, UNCTAD, International Red
Cross, FADES, FAO, FMA, IMF, IFAD, G-15, G-19, G-24 G-77, UNHCR,
IFRC, ISO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, LA NAM, ICAO, OIC, OAS
(observer), ILO, IMO, WMO, WHO, WIPO, UNWTO, OAPEC, OAU, UN, UNIDO,
OPEC, ITU, AMU, UPU, UNESCO.
Date of establishment of
diplomatic relations with Switzerland:
4 July 1962
Trading between Algeria and
Switzerland: For the first three quarters of 2009, trade between
Switzerland and Algeria have reached 595.7773 million francs cons
367.1481 million francs for the same period of 2008 an
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