Place details
Place nameAlger
Other namesAl-Jaza'ir, El Djazaïr, Algiers, El Djazaïr department
CountryAl-Jaza'ir
Latitude36.833
Longitude3
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
N central Algeria; the nation's smallest department; located in Sahel Hills of the Atlas Tellien; chief agricultural activity on hill slopes are viticulture & dairy farming; cereals are cultivated at higher elevations; beach resorts lie on W coast.