The Arab-Werber country located in the Magreb region of northern Africa. I know the capital city. It borders Morocco, West Sahara [6), Mauritani to the west, Mali and Niger to the south, and Libya and Tunisia to the east. And although they did not directly encounter the border, Spain and France are the neighboring countries just across the Mediterranean Sea in the north, and it is not far from Gibraltar. The distance from Marseille to Alge is similar to the distance from Marseille to Paris!
Overview of Algeria.
It is the largest country in the African continent. At the same time, it is the 10th largest country in the world. It has the largest territory among the members of the Arab League, and if North Africa is included in the Middle East, it becomes the largest country in the Middle East. Refer to the national territory ranking by country. In addition, it is the largest country in many Islamic countries.(2nd is Saudi Arabia, 3rd is Indonesia). Before South Sudan’s independence on July 9, 2011, Sudan was the largest and 10th largest country in Africa and the largest country in the Arab Federation, Algeria was the second largest country in Africa, the 11th largest country in the world, and the second largest in the Arab Federation. In addition, Saudi Arabia is the second largest country in the Arab Federation since the independence of South Sudan, and in the Arab Federation alone, these two countries have an area of more than 2 million square kilometers. However, the problem is that most of them are Sahara, so the large land is not rich and the space where people can live is limited. Like Saudi Arabia, it is fortunate that there are many resources in the useless land (7). Of course, there are several cities and villages inland.
Resource reserves and world share such as oil (world’s fourth), natural gas (world’s fifth), manganese (world’s third), mercury (world’s third), lead (world’s fifth), and cobalt (world’s second) are enormous, and there are still many iron ore, coal, and all kinds of resources that have not been developed. Due to the wide land, it has a warm temperate Mediterranean climate, hot desert climate, temperate climate, or step climate, but snow falls in winter and cold climates evenly. Batna is the place with the lowest temperature in Algeria. The lowest temperature record here is -20℃ on January 4, 1945. It is one of the best records in the African continent. In terms of latitude, it is located in a latitude similar to Gochang-gun, Jeollabuk-do and Ulsan Metropolitan City (35 degrees 30 minutes north latitude). There are plateaus or mountainous areas along the northern Mediterranean coast and the Atlas Mountains. Batna is located on the plateau and mountain side where the Atlas Mountains pass. Batna is 1,048m above sea level. Except for this area, most of them belong to the Sahara Desert.
Algerian etymology.
Algeria’s etymology is the Arabic word “Al-Jazair”, the Algerian Arabic dialect is “Edzair”, and the Berber language is “Zair” or “Dzayr”. Algeria’s country code top domain, .dz, comes from here. Al-Jazair’s Al is an Arabic articles of association. Usually, in Arabic, the Korean title includes the eggs of the Jeonggwansa Temple, but this is omitted in international and external foreign language titles. However, due to the influence of France, Algeria alone became known worldwide, including the articles of association.
Originally, Al-Jazar was an Arabic name for the capital Alje. The name of the capital soon became a national treasure. Jazir is a plural expression of Jajira (جية J / Jazrara, ‘island’. Currently, the island has disappeared due to reclamation, but when Werberin first established the city, there were islands offshore. Under French Algerian rule, Alzazair was known as “Alger,” a French expression, and added a nominal affix to the national title to refer to it as “Algérie.” The Korean name is a borrowed French name. In other languages, the name of Algeria’s ‘-ie’ is sometimes used as a native suffix. Examples include “Algeria” in English and “Algerien” in German.
Algeria’s official national title is the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria. This is because Algerian independence activists advocated socialism with a lot of help from the Soviet Union during the anti-British independence movement. Although it did not introduce a socialist economic system, Algeria belonged to the third world camp after independence, but showed a pro-Soviet anti-American trend for a long time. Modern Algeria’s diplomatic orientation is generally taking a path to stay easy in the United States, Russia, and China.
Algeria’s economy and resources.
The problem is that resource exports account for 97 to 8% of the total exports economically. Therefore, there is little domestic industrial production and economic foundation, and Algeria’s economic status is unstable enough to rise and fall due to the price of natural resources. Well, Algeria did not intend not to solve this problem, but it collapsed in the 1980s when the heavy industry investment policy ended in failure due to a sharp drop in oil prices and a sharp rise in debt. This is one of the reasons why the Algerian civil war broke out.
Although there are many deserts, it is quite cheap to eat here because it has a lot of agricultural land (4 times the area of France) with a rich and warm climate (especially the coast is abundant), and fruits, vegetables, olives, and date palm are grown a lot.
France did not give up here, committing slaughter. During the Third French Republic (1870-1940), under the French Constitution, the mainland of France consisted of European France and Algeria France. Other French colonies were managed as separate governing bodies, not French land under the French Constitution, and only Algeria was composed of mainland France and applied the French Constitution. Even after World War II, Algeria was treated as the mainland of France (9) until Charles de Gaulle’s coup. It was only then that Charles de Gaulle took over the French regime through a coup that changed Algeria to a colonial state and later became independent.
During World War II, the French side even told allied generals and politicians that Algeria was the same as mainland France. The reason is that Algeria is rich in geographic factors (development conditions of natural resources such as hydroelectricity and wind power) with high potential for development from abundant agricultural lands and scenic resorts. There are quite a few things that will be all kinds of tourism resources from ancient historical sites, so it is highly likely to be a world-class tourism power.
Thanks to such advantages, there are also conflicts and various problems caused by foreign oppression, and above all, they are suffering typical problems of the Cheonsudap economy, which relies too much on resource exports. The Arab spring was a period of high oil prices, so it somehow managed to pay subsidies, but it failed to diversify its industries, and oil prices fell rapidly in the mid-2010s, resulting in a serious economic crisis. In addition to these internal problems and serious unemployment, the youth unemployment rate exceeds 10% according to the government’s announcement, but it actually reaches 30%, so many young people are going to France and Europe to find jobs. To make matters worse, Algeria has a serious water shortage and food prices continue to rise due to the increasingly severe desertification. Of course, it is not just Algeria’s problem, but from neighboring Egypt to all parts of North Africa and Arab, Israel, Turkey and Iran are suffering from desertification and water shortages.