★ Algeria is the largest country in Africa, with over four-fifths of its territory covered by the Sahara desert.
★ The country has a population of 35 million people mainly located near the northern coast.
★ The country won its independence from France in 1962 in a war that began in 1954.
★ Estimates of the war’s death toll vary but run as high as one million and half Algerians.
★ 70% of the Algerian population live in the northern coastal regions of the country.
★ The French invaded Algeria in 1830. The invasion was extremely violent and almost one third of the Algerian population were killed. Algeria did not achieve independence from France until 1962.
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