Submit Now. It is the biggest country lining the Mediterranean Sea and the vaster first one of Africa. It shares ground borders in the northeast with Tunisia, in the East with Libya, in the South with Niger and Mali, in the southwest with Mauritania and territory of the Western Sahara, and on the West with Morocco. The climate is of Mediterranean type on all the northern fringe which includes the Littoral and Tell Atlas hot and dry summers, wet and cool winters , semi-arid on the highlands in the center of the country, and desert as soon as one crosses the chain of the Saharan Atlas.
The relief of Algeria consists of three large groups: Tell in the North, the highlands and the Saharan Atlas in the center, and the Sahara in the South. Is a narrow coastal strip km long and to km wide. It is bounded on the south by a mountain range, more or less parallel to the coast, and which extends from the Tlemcen region to the west, to the Tunisian border to the east.
It is made up of fertile plains like the one of Mitidja south of Algiers where the majority of the Algerian population, valleys and a succession of mountains the Tellian Atlas are concentrated, which regularly exceed 2, m.
A set of semi-arid plains and highlands running diagonally from the Moroccan border to North-eastern Algeria. Summers are heavy and dry and winters are very cold and humid. The ground is dug by many depressions, the chotts, which turn into salt lakes after the rainy season.
The vegetation is quite poor and sparse. It is limited to tufts of grass very useful for flocks of sheep , as well as alfa, a graminaceous plant that is used to make ropes, baskets, carpets, etc. These steppes are delimited in the South by a mountainous barrier the Saharan Atlas which is in fact only the extension in Algeria of the Moroccan High Atlas.
