Argelia

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Oran, Constantine, Annaba — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Algiers cascades down steep hillsides to the Mediterranean in white-washed layers that earned it the nickname 'Alger la Blanche' — its Ottoman casbah, a UNESCO World Heritage labyrinth of narrow alleys, contrasts with the French colonial boulevards below.

Los principales idiomas hablados son árabe, Berber, que reflejan el patrimonio cultural del país y abren puertas a una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Argelia se contacta mediante el código +213. Algerian identity fuses Arab, Berber (Amazigh), and French colonial threads — a tension that surfaced in the recognition of Tamazight as an official language in 2016, acknowledging the pre-Islamic North African heritage that persists in Kabylie and the Saharan south.

Argelia comparte sus fronteras con Marruecos, Libia, Niger, Mauritania, Mali, Túnez, Western Sahara. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+01:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

Couscous steamed over a rich vegetable and lamb broth is Algeria's national dish by decree, but regional variations tell the country's diversity — coastal Oran favours Spanish-influenced dishes while the south's nomadic tradition produces hearty tagines cooked in desert sand.

Football electrifies Algeria from the Mediterranean coast to Saharan oases, and the national team's 2019 Africa Cup of Nations victory sparked celebrations that brought millions into the streets during the same year the Hirak protest movement was reshaping the country's political future.

The Algerian Sahara covers nearly 90% of the country's territory and contains the Tadrart Acacus plateau — a landscape of sculpted sand dunes, volcanic rock needles, and prehistoric rock art depicting elephants and crocodiles in a region that was green savanna 8,000 years ago.