Algiers (dza)

Algiers

Algiers ranks 491st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kingston upon Hull, La Paz, and Swansea. Memorable people born in Algiers include Édouard-Henri Avril, Daniel Auteuil, and Jacques Rancière. Memorable people who died in Algiers include Camille Saint-Saëns, Ahmed Ben Bella, and Houari Boumédiène. Algiers has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and composers. Algiers is located in Algeria.

Algiers is the administrative, political and economic capital and largest city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province. The city's population at the 2008 census was 2,988,145 and in 2020 was estimated to be around 4,500,000. Located in the north-central part of the country, it extends along the shores of the Bay of Algiers in the heart of the Maghreb region making it classified among the biggest cities in North Africa, the Arab world and the Mediterranean, due to it being a major center of culture, arts, gastronomy and trade. Read more on Wikipedia