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Algiers

الجزائر
View over Algiers
View over Algiers
Official seal of Algiers
Seal
Nickname(s): 
Algiers the White
Location of Algiers within Algeria
Location of Algiers within Algeria
Country Algeria
Wilaya Algiers Province
Re-founded AD 944
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
Postal codes
16000-16132

Algiers is the capital city of Algeria, which is a country in northern Africa. It is on the northern coast of the country. The population of the city is 1,519,570.

Twin towns

Algiers has many twin towns all over the world:



Images for kids

  • Civitates orbis terrarum. De praecipuis totius universi urbibus. Liber secundus (page 128)

    Algiers by Antonio Salamanca, circa 1540, published in Civitates Orbis Terrarum

  • Duquesne fait liberer des captifs chretiens apres le bombardement d Alger en 1683

    Abraham Duquesne delivering Christian captives in Algiers after the bombing in 1683.

  • Algiers and Bejaia by Piri Reis

    Historic map of Algiers by Piri Reis

  • Sm Bombardment of Algiers, August 1816-Luny

    The bombardment of Algiers by Lord Exmouth, August 1816, painted by Thomas Luny

  • Ottoman cannon end of 16th century length 385cm cal 178mm weight 2910 stone projectile founded 8 October 1581 Alger seized 1830

    Ornate Ottoman cannon found in Algiers on 8 October 1581 by Ca'fer el-Mu'allim. Length: 385 cm, cal:178 mm, weight: 2910 kg, stone projectile. Seized by France during the invasion of Algiers in 1830. Musée de l'Armée, Paris.

  • Algiers CNE-v1-p58-J

    City and harbour of Algiers, c. 1921

  • NOTRE DAME D'AFRIQUE.ALGER

    Notre Dame d'Afrique, built by European settlers in 1872

  • Algiers, Algeria

    Astronautical view of Algiers

  • Alger front de mer

    Algiers waterfront

  • Algeri04

    Cosmopolitan Algiers

  • Mosquée Ketchaoua

    The Ketchaoua Mosque

  • Makamelchahid

    The Monument of the Martyrs (Maquam E'chahid)

  • Alger - Grande Poste

    Grand Post Office

  • Algiers mosque

    The El Jedid mosque at the Place des Martyrs

  • Ministerefinacealger

    Ministry of Finance of Algeria

  • Alger Tunnel-des-Facultes - Place-Maurice-Audin IMG 0236

    Air Algérie head office in Place Audin near the University of Algiers, in Alger-Centre

  • Algeri08

    Panorama of the city as seen from Bologhine district

  • Metro, suburban train and tramway map of Algiers

    Public transport of Algiers

  • Transportations in algiers

    Various means of transport in Algiers

  • Battle-of-Algiers-screenshot

    The Battle of Algiers (1966), Italian-Algerian movie by Gillo Pontecorvo.

See also

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