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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)
</p></body></article></text>