capital: Algiers

population: 32,531,853 language: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects

people: Arab-Berber 99% note: almost all Algerians are Berber in origin, not Arab; the minority who identify themselves as Berber live mostly in the mountainous region of Kabylie east of Algiers.

religion: Sunni Muslim (state religion) 99%, Christian and Jewish 1%

government: republic