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Algeria Country Quiz

🇩🇿 Can you answer these questions about the country of Algeria?
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What is the capital of Algeria?
Algiers
What are the two official languages of Algeria?
Arabic
Berber
The name for Algeria in language #1 is "Al Jazair" - what does it mean?
The Islands
What is the largest country that Algeria borders?
Libya
What is the smallest country it borders?
Tunisia
With which country does Algeria share its shortest border?
Mauritania
What is the second most populous city of Algeria?
Oran
What mountain range covers the northern parts of Algeria
Atlas
Which ocean sea does Algeria border?
Mediterranean Sea
What desert covers all of the southern parts of the country?
Sahara
In which North African region that begins with M is Algeria located?
Maghreb
Which Manchester City player is the current captain of the Algerian national team?
Riyad Mahrez
Which Algerian born author wrote "The Stranger" and "The Plague"?
Albert Camus
From which country did Algeria gain its independence after a bloody war in 1962?
France
Which empire controlled the Algerian coasts from 1515 until 1830?
Ottoman Empire
For which Roman emperor is the third most populous city in Algeria named?
Constantine
Which Roman bishop and philosopher wrote "Confessions" and resided in Algeria?
Augustine of Hippo
What is the most important export of Algeria?
Oil
What is the currency used in Algeria?
Dinar
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12 Comments
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Level 56
Jul 27, 2020
Please accept Alger as the capital name. Thanks!
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Level 52
Oct 14, 2022
just type it right
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Level 24
Jun 29, 2024
it's algiers in english lol
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Level 62
Apr 24, 2021
"the islands"??? where'd they get that from?
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Level 65
Jun 8, 2021
I'm no expert, but probably from some islands.
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Level 54
Apr 19, 2022
What islands? Algeria is a big country with no obvious islands.
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Level 45
Mar 27, 2026
This is a common misconception. Al-Jazaîr is the arabized name of The Zirid Berber dynasty that founded and ruled over the capital Algiers which later gave it name to the whole country.

The indegenous name of Algeria is Dzayer or Dzaîr which comes from the expression ''Da Ziri'' which translates to ''He/She is a moonlight" because of the last name of the founder of the Zirid Dynasty was "Ziri" which means ''Moonlight" in Berber. Therefore, everyone who came from the country ruled by The Zirids was called Da-Ziri or D-Ziri/D-Ziria which is the demonym for today algerians in their vernacular arabic (Darja).

The name Dziri was adapted to the Arabic language becoming Al-Jazaîr which means ''The Islands", this term referred also to the four islets located off the port of Algiers before they were connected to the mainland by the construction of a jetty in 1529 by one of the Barbarossa brothers.

So basically, a Berber name that was arabized to make sens to a certain type of topography.

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Level 82
Dec 16, 2021
Is it not a shame that more jetpunkers have heard of a footballer than one of the greatest thinkers of the Christian church ever.
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Level 74
Apr 9, 2022
Not really.
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Level 27
May 17, 2022
No, it is not. It just means that people are more interested in football than Christians. Especially since it would be a safe guess to say that many people doing this quiz are not Christian. Why should someone learn about Christian figures if that is not their religion?
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Level 43
Apr 29, 2024
Mahrez no longer plays for Man City! Now plays in the Saudi league
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Level 86
Dec 30, 2024
Agreed