Algeria is the largest country in Africa, mostly covered by the Sahara. Travel to Algeria, born in Algeria, the south of Algeria.
About four fifths of it is desert and almost everybody lives on the Mediterranean strip in the north. It became the largest country in Africa when Sudan split in 2011, and its war of independence from France ended in 1962 after eight years.
1nounalgeriaA country in North Africa.
“Algeria is the largest country in Africa by area.”
algeria is a country.
Arabic
اَلْجَزَائِر — the islands
arq
الدزَاير
French
Algérie
English
Algeria
English, today
algeria
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Algeria comes from Algiers + -ia. From Alger + -ia, modified based on French Algérie, from the French Alger + -ie, from arq الدزَاير, from Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر (“the islands”) (with elision of the first vowel), plural of جَزِيرَة (“island”), referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers. a doublet of Algiers and Algeciras.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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