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The Algeria – Morocco border is 1,427 km (887 mi) in length and runs from Mediterranean Sea in the north, to the tripoint with Western Sahara in the south. [1] The border has been officially closed to all travel since 1994, although clandestine crossings are common. [2]
Algeria, [ f ] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, [ g ] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
After Algerian independence, the border disputes remained leading to skirmishes along the Algerian-Moroccan border and the eventual outbreak of the Sand War in 1963. The dispute revolved around Morocco claiming the region surrounding Tidnouf. After two months of fighting, Algeria and Morocco agreed to a ceasefire agreed upon on 29 and 30 ...
History. France occupied much of the northern coastal areas of Algeria in the period 1830-47 and Tunisia in 1881, both of which had hitherto been subject to the nominal control of the Ottoman Empire. [3][2] France gradually pushed inland, annexing the Saharan areas of Algeria in 1902. [2] The border from the coast south to Bir Ramane was ...
A boundary between French West Africa and French Algeria (i.e. what are now Algeria’s borders with Mauritania, Mali and Niger) was agreed on 7 June 1905 by the Commandant of Upper Senegal and Niger and the Military Commander of the Department de l'Oasis within French Algeria. The border was further defined by the Niamey Convention of June 1909.
Geography of Algeria. Algeria comprises 2,381,740 square kilometres (919,590 sq mi) of land, more than 80% of which is desert, in North Africa, between Morocco and Tunisia. [2][1] It is the largest country in Africa. [1] Its Arabic name, Al Jazair (the islands), is believed to derive from the rocky islands along the coastline of the ...
The border begins in the west at the tripoint with Mauritania, and is a continuation of the NW-SE straight line that forms the Algeria–Mauritania border. [2] This straight line runs for circa 752 km (467 m). Just north of the 21st parallel north the border shifts southward, proceeding to the southeast via a series of irregular lines and the ...
M. Algeria–Mali border crossings (1 P) Algeria–Mauritania border crossings (1 P) Algeria–Morocco border crossings (2 P)