Algeria - General Information
Timezone : GMT+1
Area : 2460500km’/949753sqmi
Population total : (2002e)3 126 1000
Status : Democratic republic
Date of independence : 1962
Capital : Algiers
Language : Arabic (official/, Berber, French)
Ethnogroups : Arab (7s%), Berber (2s%)
Religions : Muslim (Sunni 99%), Roman Catholic (0.5%)
Physical features mountainous area in N Africa: mountains rise in a series of ridges and plateau to the Atlas Saharien; 85% of land is Saharan desert.
Climate Mediterranean in N, with cool, rainy winters and hot dry summers; average annual temperatures 12°C Jar), 25°C got); average annual rainfall 900-eoo mm/t5.8-31.5 in (mostly Nov-Mar): essentially rain-less Sahamn climate in S.
Currency 1 Algerian Dinar (AD. t11)=100 Centimes
Economy Petroleum products account for about 30% of national income; natural-gas Iiquification; jointly _ built with Italy lost trans-Mediterranean gas pipeline; agriculture mainly on N coast: wheat, barley, oats, grapes. citrus fivits,vegetables; also foodpmcessing, tex-tiles, clothing.
GOP (2002e) $173.8 bn, per Capita $5400
HDI (2002) 0.697
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