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Algiers

French Foreign Minister Dominique De Villepin (L) shakes hands with Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika 17 December 2002 in Algiers. The French minister later signed a 61-million-euro (dollar) agreement to convert Algeria's debts into investments.

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About Algiers

Algiers (Arabic: الجزائر al-Jazāʼir, literally "the Islands"; Berber: Ldzayer, French: Alger) is the capital and largest city of Algeria in North Africa. According to the 1998 census the population of the city proper was 1,519,570, whereas the population for the metropolitan area was 2,135,630. Nicknamed al-Bahjah (البهجة) or Alger la Blanche ("Algiers the White") for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea, it is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The city name is derived from its location on the slopes of the "Sahel", a chain of hills parallel to the coast. Algiers is the only Algerian city with an English name different from its French name. The urban area of Greater Algiers is the largest one in the Maghreb after Greater Casablanca.

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