Admirable Algeria Trivia Quiz

Answer: Its own capital city

Algeria is named after its capital city, Algiers. Algiers is the oldest city in Algeria, founded in 944 by Bologhine ibn Ziri, the founder of the Berber dynasty.

Answer: Mount Tahat

Mount Tahat is the highest point of Algeria, with an elevation of 2,908 m (9,541 ft), towering over the Sahara Desert. The mountain range it is located in is the Hoggar mountain range.

Answer: More than 2 Million sq km

Algeria's total area is 2.382 Million sq km, making it the tenth largest country in the world, behind Kazakhstan but just over the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Answer: Algerian Arabic and Berber

Originally, Algeria only had one official language: Algerian Arabic, but due to the Berber protests in 2001, Berber was made an official language.

Answer: The Algerian Dinar

The currency of Algeria is the dinar. The decision was made on the 10th of April, 1964 by the Central Bank of Algeria, replacing the franc. One dinar is divided into 100 centimes but they are not used due to their extremely low value.

Answer: Couscous

Couscous is composed of small bits of steamed semolina topped with lamb or beef, vegetables including carrot and potato, and lots of spices.

Answer: 7

These countries are Morocco to the west, Mauritania and Mali to the southwest, Niger to the southeast, Libya to the east, Tunisia to the northeast, and a small border with Western Sahara in the west.

Answer: Present

Algeria is vastly large, larger then it was ever before! French colonisation only went around the coastal area, but after independence, Algeria expanded into the Sahara.

Answer: Islam

Islam was brought to Algeria by the Umayyad Dynasty, following the invasion of Uqba ibn Nafi.

Answer: 1,620 km

Algeria's coastline is on the Mediterranean with beautiful beaches contrasted by the 80% of the country that is desert.