Map of Algeria

Algeria is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 28.0° N, 3.0° E. It shares land borders with 6 countries — Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger and Tunisia — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Algeria is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Algeria shares land frontiers with the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Algeria covers about 2,381,741 km² (919,595 sq mi). That makes it the 10th-largest country in the world by area and the largest country in Africa by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 47,400,000, the 32nd-largest in the world and the 9th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 3.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Algeria has an average population density of about 20 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 9th by population and 1st by area.

The seat of government is Algiers, and the official currency is the Algerian dinar (DZD, د.ج), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Algeria carries the ISO country codes DZ and DZA, dials on the international calling code +213 and uses the .dz, الجزائر. internet domain.

Algeria shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Morocco (capital Rabat, about 36,828,330 people), Niger (capital Niamey, about 26,312,034 people), Mali (capital Bamako, about 22,395,489 people), Tunisia (capital Tunis, about 11,972,169 people), Libya (capital Tripoli, about 7,459,000 people) and Mauritania (capital Nouakchott, about 4,927,532 people).

By area, Algeria is larger than 6 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 28.0° N, 3.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Algeria within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Algiers. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Algeria lies about 3,108 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Algeria keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Algerian dinar (DZD, د.ج).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +213 and websites commonly use the .dz, الجزائر. internet domain.

In short, Algeria is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Algiers. Algeria has a population of about 47,400,000 and covers around 2,381,741 km² (919,595 sq mi), ranking it 32nd in the world by population and 10th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Algeria.

The flag of Algeria features two equal vertical bands of green and white. A five-pointed red star within a fly-side facing red crescent is centered over the two-color boundary.

The flag of Algeria is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.