Relief.

The relief of Algeria consists of two ranges of mountains that run fairly parallel from East to West, and distribute the land into three main areas that offer largely diverse landscapes, from North to South:

The Tell is a zone of coastal plains with abrupt coastlines.

The plains are discontinous and their widths vary between 50 and 118 miles. Along with their adjoining valleys, they shelter most of the agricultural land of the country.

The High Plains are a steppe-like zone of an average altitude and are separated from the Sahara by the Saharan Atlas.
The Saharan Atlas is a chain of dry and desert-like mountains 1,640 to 8,200 feet high.
The Sahara is a desert of 772,200 square miles. It covers 80% of the country. It mainly consists of rocky plateau and stony plains. Two large sand areas (the Western Grand Erg and the Eastern Grand Erg) compose the main dune relief of the Saharan desert.

National parks have been created in many areas of the country as an effort to protect the various species.
 

Faun.

 There are various species of mammals, including rare species, such as the 'phoque moine', 'mouflon à manchettes', cheetahs (some succeed in living in the isolated region of Hoggar), Barbary deer in the Guelma and Tipaza regions, monkeys in the Gorges of Chiffa and, in Kabylie, wild boars hares, hyenas, genettes' and jackals. Gazelles, dromedaries and fennecs live in the Sahara.
The bird population includes red partridges in the Mascara region, pink flamingoes, ducks and waders in the El Kala region.

Flora

 In the North, the natural vegetation consists of bushes, umbrella pines and cork oaks.
In the high mountains of Kabylie and the Aures, there are Alep pines, holm oaks, cork-oaks, thujas, fir-trees from Numidia, acacias, jujubes, and cedars. Beyond the Tell Atlas, the Western high plateaux, have a steppe-like vegetation, with a predominance of esparto grass and 'armoise'.
 

Main cities of the country.

The urbanisation rate is high in the North where 55% of the population live in urban areas. The main cities of Algeria, located along the coast or in the high plains, are as follows:

- Algiers, the Capital City of Algeria, with a population of 3 million inhabitants;
- Oran, 269 miles West of Algiers, with a population of 660 000 inhabitants;
- Constantine, 268 miles East of Algiers, with a population of 500 000 inhabitants;
- Annaba, 373 miles further East of Algiers, with a population of 400 000 inhabitants.