The capital city of Algeria, located on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
From Arabic 'al-Jazair' meaning 'the islands,' referring to islands in the harbor that have since been connected to the mainland. The name has been used for over a thousand years.
Algiers comes from Arabic 'al-Jazair' meaning 'the islands'—those islands were so important that the whole city is named after them, even though they merged with the mainland hundreds of years ago!
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