Algiers (Arabic: الجزائر, al-Jazā’er; Algerian Arabic pronunciation: دزاير Dzayer, Berber: Dzayer tamaneɣt, French: Alger) is the capital and largest city of Algeria.
In 2011, the city's population was estimated to be around 3,500,000. An
estimate puts the population of the larger metropolitan city to be
around 5,000,000. Algiers is located on the Mediterranean Sea and in the
north-central portion of Algeria.
Sometimes nicknamed El-Behdja (البهجة) or alternatively Alger la Blanche
("Algiers the White") for the glistening white of its buildings as seen
rising up from the sea, Algiers is situated on the west side of a bay
of the Mediterranean Sea. The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore; 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, 122 metres (400 ft) above the sea. The casbah and the two quays form a triangle.
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