Algiers is the capital and largest port and city of Algeria.
Location of Algiers
It is located in northern Algeria on the Bay of Algiers. The urban area of Greater Algiers is one of the largest in the Maghreb. Algiers is the only Algerian city with an English name different from its French name. The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore and the old part, the ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the casbah or citadel. The casbah and the two quays form a triangle.
Importance of Algiers
Algiers is an important economic, commercial and financial pole, with in particular a stock exchange. Algiers is the administrative centre of Algeria, and is also the country's main harbor. It serving both as a shipping center and a principal Mediterranean refueling station. Activities in Algiers consist in both Government and private administration, national and international trade. The main export products are grain, iron, phosphates, wines, citrus fruits and vegetables, as well as oil from central Algeria. The main industries are oil refining, petrochemicals, metal working and foodstuffs. Algiers has the best connections to any other urban center in the country.
Algiers Transportation
It is well located in the northern centre. There are a number of highways and roads running out of it, as well as a southern and an eastern-bound railway. Algiers has a major international airport, and a ferry connection with Marseilles in France. The port of Algiers is also the most important of West Africa. Algiers is also the largest sporting pole of Algeria.
Algiers is located on the Mediterranean Sea, in the north-central part of the country, ... In French it is nicknamed Alger la Blanche, "Algiers the White".
