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Algiers [a] is the capital and largest city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province. The city's population at the 2008 census was 2,988,145 [ 3 ] and in 2020 was estimated to be around 4,500,000.
The capital and largest city is Algiers, located in the far north on the Mediterranean coast. Inhabited since prehistory , Algeria has been at the crossroads of numerous cultures and civilisations, including the Phoenicians , Numidians , Romans , Vandals , and Byzantine Greeks .
This is a list of Algerian cities and towns with more than 100,000 inhabitants, and towns and villages with more than 20,000 inhabitants. For a list of all the 1,541 municipalities of Algeria, see List of municipalities of Algeria, and for the postal code of an Algerian city, see list of postal codes of Algerian cities.
The capital and largest city is Algiers, located in the far north on the Mediterranean coast. Spanning 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the world's tenth-largest nation by area, and the largest nation in Africa.
The following table presents the list of provinces, showing for each its numerical code, its name (which is at all times the same as the name of the capital city of the province), the number of districts ("dairas"), the number of municipalities, its area, and its population.
The first country on the main list, Bolivia, is a country with multiple capitals; La Paz is the seat of the government while Sucre is the constitutional capital. The second list below contains several states with limited recognition.
Algiers Province (Arabic: ولاية الجزائر, Wilāyat al-Jazāʼir, [wilaːja ald͡ʒazaːʔir]; French: wilaya d'Alger) is a province in Algeria, named after its capital, Algiers, which is also the national capital. It is adopted from the old French department of Algiers and has a population of about 8 million. It is the most densely ...
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