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- <title>
- Algeria: Geography
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Algeria
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Northern Africa, along the Mediterranean Sea,
- between Morocco and Tunisia
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 2,381,740 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 2,381,740 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly less than 3.5 times the size of
- Texas</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: total 6,343 km, Libya 982 km, Mali 1,376 km,
- Mauritania 463 km, Morocco 1,559 km, Niger 956 km, Tunisia 965
- km, Western Sahara 42 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 998 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: Libya claims part of southeastern
- Algeria; land boundary disputes with Tunisia under discussion
- </p>
- <p>Climate: arid to semiarid; mild, wet winters with hot, dry
- summers along coast; drier with cold winters and hot summers on
- high plateau; sirocco is a hot, dust/sand-laden wind especially
- common in summer
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains;
- narrow, discontinuous coastal plain
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore,
- phosphates, uranium, lead, zinc
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 3%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 13%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 2%</l>
- <l> other: 82%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 3,360 km2 (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Environment: mountainous areas subject to severe earthquakes;
- desertification
- </p>
- <p>Note: second-largest country in Africa (after Sudan)
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