Algeria
Northern Africa · Algiers
Everything Mapfold knows about Algeria, and the 2 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
Algeria in figures
- Capital
- Algiers
- Region
- Northern Africa
- Area
- 2,381,741 km²
- Population
- 47,435,312
- Density
- 19.9 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 7
- Coast
- Has a coast
- Highest point
- 2,908 m
- Mean temperature
- 23.6 °C
- Life expectancy
- 76.5 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 6,051
- Urban
- 75.8 %
- Forest
- 0.8 %
Algeria in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what Algeria answers to it. This is not a fact about Algeria so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find Algeria
2 answers are enough to leave Algeria alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
It spans more than 20° of longitude.
17 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
It is in Africa.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes Algeria unusual
It spans more than 20° of longitude.
17 of 192 countriesA tropic runs through it.
27 of 192 countriesIt covers more than 500,000 km².
51 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- LOCATION
It spans more than 20° of longitude.
17 of 192 countries - LOCATION
A tropic runs through it.
27 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers more than 500,000 km².
51 of 192 countries - REGION
It is in Africa.
54 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
59 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders five or more countries.
60 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
73 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is above 75.
85 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 30% of it is forest.
92 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies west of 20°E.
95 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than ten million people live there.
95 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages warmer than 22 °C all year.
104 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers more than 100,000 km².
107 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $12,000.
114 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is above 2,000 m.
118 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs wider than it is tall.
126 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is bigger than Belgium.
135 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is thinner than 150 people per square kilometre.
136 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at least two countries.
138 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages over 12 °C all year.
143 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Asia.
146 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Europe.
148 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It touches the sea.
149 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the northern hemisphere.
154 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It has at least one land neighbour.
155 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than a million people live there.
156 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in the Americas.
157 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies south of 45°N.
160 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than fifty million people live there.
161 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $40,000.
163 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 60% of it is forest.
166 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
It does not use the euro.
167 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is over 500 m.
171 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Oceania.
179 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
How Algeria compares
- Bigger than DR Congo
- Smaller than Kazakhstan
- More people than Iraq
- Fewer people than Spain
- 10th largest of 192 by area
- 33rd by population, of 192
Which countries border Algeria
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