Bordering Tunisia in the Northeast and Niger in the Southeast, Algeria is the second largest country on the African continent with its name being derived from its capital city Algiers. It is bordered by Mauritania and Mali in the southwest, Niger in the southeast, Libya in the east, Tunisia in the northeast and Morocco a few kilometres of the Western Sahara, in the west.

Algeria is a member of the African Union; it is also a member of OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries). Constitutionally, it is defined as an Islamic, Arab, and Amazigh (Berber) country.