Short answers, pulled from the story.
Algeria is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa, bordered to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. Spanning over 2,381,741 square kilometres, it is the largest country in Africa and the tenth largest in the world.
The capital and largest city of Algeria is Algiers. The name Algeria derives from Algiers, whose Arabic name al-Jazair means "the islands," referring to small islands once located off the city's coast.
Algeria became independent on the 5th of July 1962, ending 132 years of French colonial rule. France had invaded in 1830, formally annexed Algeria in 1848, and signed the Evian Accords in March 1962 before independence.
The Algerian Civil War ran from 1992 to 2002, after authorities cancelled elections on the 11th of January 1992 to prevent an Islamist victory by the Islamic Salvation Front. More than 100,000 people are thought to have died in the conflict.
Algeria's economy is dominated by petroleum and natural gas, which account for roughly 60 percent of budget revenues and 87.7 percent of export earnings. It holds the tenth-largest natural gas reserves in the world, and its national oil company Sonatrach is the largest company in Africa.
Arabic and Tamazight are the official languages of Algeria, and most people speak the Algerian dialect of Arabic known as Darja. French has no official status but persists in media, education, and administration, with an estimated 33 percent of the population Francophone in 2022.