Algeria | |
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| Land Area | 2381741km² |
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| Population | 40263711 |
| Population density | 16.9 / km² |
Algeria ( (listen) al-JEER-ee-ə, Arabic: الجزائر al-Jazā'ir), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean shore. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country on earth, and the largest by area from the African Union and the Arab world. With an estimated population of over 44 million, it is the eighth-most populous country in Africa. Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the southeast by Niger, to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and the Western Saharan territory, to the west by Morocco, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country has a semi-arid geography, with the majority of the populace living in the fertile north and the Sahara dominating the geography of the south. This arid geography makes the country very vulnerable to climate change.Pre-1962 Algeria has known many empires and dynasties, including early Numidians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Umayyads, Abbasids, Idrisid, Aghlabid, Rustamid, Fatimids, Zirid, Hammadids, Almoravids, Almohads, Zayyanids, Spaniards, Ottomans and finally, the French colonial empire. The majority of the populace is Arab-Berber, practicing Islam and using the official languages of Arabic and Berber. However, French functions as an administrative and education language in certain contexts, and Algerian Arabic is the primary spoken language. Algeria has a semi-presidential republic, with local constituencies comprising 58 provinces and 1,541 communes. Algeria is a regional and middle power. It has the highest human development index of all non-island African countries and one of the biggest economies on the continent, based mostly on energy exports. Algeria has the 16th largest oil reserves in the world and the second biggest in Africa, while it has the ninth largest reserves of natural gas. Sonatrach, the national oil company, is the largest company in Africa, supplying large amounts of natural gas to Europe. Algeria has one of the largest militaries in Africa and the largest defence budget. It is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, OPEC, the United Nations, and the Arab Maghreb Union, of which it is a founding member.
Source: WikipediaSaint Lucia | |
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| Land Area | 606km² |
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| Population | 173907 |
| Population density | 287.0 / km² |
<p>Saint Lucia (UK: (listen), US: (listen); French: Sainte-Lucie) is a sovereign island Nation in the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. </p>The island was previously called Iyonola, the name given to the island by the Amerindians and afterwards, Hewanorra, the name given by the native Caribs. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of south of Martinique and Saint Vincent. It covers a land area of 617 km2 (238 square kilometers ) and reported a population of 165,595 in the 2010 census. Its capital is Castries. The French were the first settlers of the island. They signed a treaty with the Island Caribs. England took control of the island. In ensuing years, it was at war with France fourteen days, and the principle of the island changed regularly (it was ruled seven times each by the British and French ). In 1814, the British took definitive control of the island. Because it switched so often between French and British control, Saint Lucia was also known as the"Helen of the West Indies" after the Greek mythological character, Helen of Troy. Representative government came about in 1840 (universal suffrage was established in 1953). The island was a member of the West Indies Federation. On 22 February 1979, Saint Lucia became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and an independent country. Saint Lucia is a jurisdiction that is mixed, meaning that it has a legal system based in part on the civil law and English common law. The Civil Code of St. Lucia of 1867 was based on the Quebec Civil Code of 1866, as supplemented by English common law-style legislation. It is a member of Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
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