a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s

a republic of North Africa on the Mediterranean Sea

a republic with a developing economy

the African country located southeast of Spain, across the Mediterranean Sea.

Algeria (, Al Jaza'ir , Berber: , Ledzayer ), is the second largest country on the African continent.https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ag.html CIA Factbook It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco as well as a few kilometers of the Western Sahara, in the west. Constitutionally, Algeria is defined as an Islamic, Arab, and Amazigh (Berber) country.