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Algeria (Arabic: الجزائر, Tamazight: dzayer), officially the People's Democratic Republic (RAPD) is State of North Africa which is part of the Maghreb. Its capital, Algiers , is located north on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 sq km, is the largest country bordering the Mediterranean and the second largest in Africa after Sudan. He shares land borders to the north-east with Tunisia in the east with Libya in the south with Niger and Mali, south-west Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara, and finally to the west with Morocco. After 132 years of French rule, Algeria gained its independence July 5, 1962.

From 1962, the Algerian government has adopted a highly centralized planned economy, the first objectives were to give Algeria independence in the economic recovery by including wealth national. A series of nationalizations is conducted as such, particularly involving foreign companies. Subsequently a considerable effort of industrialization is deployed. But this policy was immediately challenged by the new situation introduced by the oil shock of 1986, the state could no longer endure during this period the financial investment it consented to the benefit of national companies and was not able to respond positively to the new wave of applications that have greatly increased with increasing population, the country has known since independence. The Algeria uses from 1988 to IMF structural adjustment to achieve a comprehensive reform program is committed to ensure a transition from a socialist economy to a market economy.

Today Algeria has a very favorable economic situation both internally and externally, in particular following the very strong increase in oil prices, the country's economic growth has followed a progression constant and stable from 2.1% in 2001 to 5.3% in 2005, with a peak of 6.8% in 2003, the multi-year projections associated with the law Finance 2005 predict an average growth of 5.3% per annum for the period 2005-2009. Despite the presence of excess liquidity due to the abundance of oil, inflation is under control thanks to the strict control exercised by the Bank of Algeria, the rate of inflation at the end of 2005 was 1.5% against 3, 6% for 2004. Externally, Algeria is the third largest economy in Africa with a GDP of USD 171.3 billion, behind South Africa with USD 300.4 billion and Nigeria with 220.3 billion USD, the amount GDP per capita is estimated in 2008 to 5.073 USD.

Transportation in Algeria:

Algeria has 35 airports, including 13 international. The most important is the Algiers airport with a capacity since 2006, 6 million passengers per year. Air Algeria, the national airline, dominates the market for its air transport which has since its opening to competition 8 other private companies. It deals with several lines to the Europe, Africa, Canada, China, the Middle East. Several foreign airlines have flights to Algeria (Tunisair, Royal Air Morocco, Air France, Air Italy, Aigle Azur, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines, British Airways, etc..).

Telecommunications in Algeria:

sector of mobile telephony has increased for the period 2001-2006 from 100 000 to more than 20 million subscribers, and known from 2005 to 2006, a penetration rate of 67.8%. The evolution of the fixed telephone market is relatively stagnant, but Internet access is still rare despite the large deployment of new technologies (including fiber optic network of 23,457 km). The World Bank in 2005, Algeria had an average of 494 telephone lines per 1000 people and about 58 for Internet users. In Algeria, the private operator Nedjma in partnership with RIM launched a preview of the Maghreb, November 15, 2006, the first BlackBerry offering. The operator Djezzy (Orascom Telecom Algeria) introduced the BlackBerry in 2007 followed by the incumbent Mobilis (Algeria Telecom). [In Wikipedia ]

View from in Algeria night.