Algeria

Modern Algeria - one of the largest and educed countries of Africa, had at coast of Mediterranean sea and the occupying space 2381,7  thousand sq. km. Till 1962 Algeria was the French colony. An official language - Arabian.

the country Terrain occupies the central part of a range the Atlas and deserts Sahara. The landform of Northern Algeria is presented by two cores ridge - Long-shore (or the Tel-atlas) and the Saharsky Atlas and intermountain plains. A climate - mount Tahat (3003  in Ahaggar mountains. The terrain of Sahara is occupied by stony deserts - hamadami and sandy - erg. The river network is educed poorly (basic - the river Shelif), the bulk of the rivers regularly dries up. A climate of Northern Algeria - subtropical Mediterranean. Average temperature of January 5-12  °C, July - 25  °C, a precipitation to 1200  mm in mounts and 200-400  mm on plains. In Sahara is much hotter, and deposits falls out less 50  mm a year.

The Vegetation of the north of Algeria is typical for the Mediterranean: heavy beds of bushes and low arbours (evergreen mastikovoe an arbour, a feral olive, a pistachio, an acacia etc.) occupy hillsides to thousand metres, pine groves here and there were saved. Above thousand metres there are woods from live oaks (stone and cork), aleppskoj pines and groves rare now cedars-of-Lebanon. Flat regions of Northern Algeria are occupied by dry steppes. In a deserted part of the country the vegetation is extremely impoverished and razrezhenna.

The Population (nearby 27  million persons) - Algerians, offsprings ancient berberov and Arabs, in the core practising Islam. The nonmigratory agricultural population (more 95 % in the north predominates from the general number), in a deserted part inhabitants (including berbery) still save traditional way, being engaged in nomadic cattle breeding. Country capital - the ancient city of Algeria stretched by an amphitheatre on hills at the fake with the same name. The majority of buildings is builted of the light building timber giving to a city an elegant aspect. It is original Arabian kasba in an old part of a city with the arabesque disorder of narrow streets and one-storeyed dwellings with flat roofs, harmonous mosques and other buildings in east style. Among them mosque-tomb Sidd Abdarrahman builted in XVII century and mosque Dzhami-al-Dzhadid deposit. Other large cities - Oran, Annaba, Konstantin.